haun XII - (Lower Section)
The Virtual Marshal McLuhan, Donald Theall, and Linda Dalrymple Henderson
Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works. Outlining the Eiffel Tower as "the voice" of technological progress in its numerous uses for Scientists and Technologists of the 19th Century. (Top Section) Shaun in cruciform: (Dali) with the notion of being interrogated by the 19th Century Art Historians: Heinrich Wölfflin, Alois Riegl, Gottfried Semper, and also Vladimir Nabokov (who had an avid interest in
Chess Problems) See Marcel Duchamp’s "aesthetic fascination" with chess here:
http://www.toutfait.com/articals.php?id=46836 and his full disinclination toward Art at the same time. A circle for the
Rainbow Girls and a sketch - in total - for the
Star Chamber - all of which can be traced to questions and answers and inquisitions on the text of the
Wake and the
Glass including Duchamp’s total oeuvre: works that interrogate themselves in this fashion could be loosely said to deconstruct themselves in the hands of their creators: the issue being that this "deconstruction" is here being rehearsed once more, but several times, meaning that each work on show is in a state of being reawakened and thus reworked. MD and JJ’s works require a reader to have a relationship with Renaissance art and literature: my own work on these two artists also requires more from myself on this and other matters as critics of the Wake and of the Glass would obviously comment.
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