A conversation with Marcel Duchamp : from NBC's Wisdom Series /
Filmed amidst the Arensberg collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where 35 works by Marcel Duchamp are gathered, this 1956 NBC interview features the artist talking with James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the Guggenheim Museum. Duchamp describes his transition away from Impressionism...
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New York, N.Y. :
Films Media Group,
[2010], ©1956.
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
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| Acquisition Notes: | Gertrud A. White Memorial Fund |
| Series: | Wisdom series (Culver City, Calif.)
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| Summary: | Filmed amidst the Arensberg collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where 35 works by Marcel Duchamp are gathered, this 1956 NBC interview features the artist talking with James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the Guggenheim Museum. Duchamp describes his transition away from Impressionism toward a Cubist, and then post-Cubist, approach, providing commentary while standing before Nude Descending a Staircase ("I was not aware of Italian Futurism when I painted it") and The Large Glass ("The two crackings are symmetrically arranged and there is ... almost an intention there ... a ready-made intention, in other words, that I respect and love."). These concepts are paradoxically, although quite logically, articulated alongside his desire for "dryness" and mechanical precision. Viewers also gain insight into Duchamp's thoughts on painting for an "ideal" public - a notion he clearly distinguishes from ivory-tower elitism. |
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| Item Description: | Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on December 03, 2010. Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware. Title from distributor's description. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (29 mins.) : sound, black and white. 4 3/4 in. |
| Audience: | 9 & up. |
| Language: | Closed-captioned. |