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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Marcel Duchamp: Verbal Recursion (Three Plays)


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Austrian postcard, showing children playing: author unknown, 1901




Une nymphe amie d'enfance

Une infamie d'enfance


Marcel Duchamp: phonetical pun lost in translation (A nymph friend from childhood/An infamy from childhood)





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The young artist: Pierre Joseph Toussaint (1822-1888), n.d.


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Union Station waiting room, Chicago: photo by Jack Delano, January 1943 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)




A guest + a host = a ghost.



Marcel Duchamp: Jeu de mot phonetique en anglais (Un invité + un hôte = un fantôme.)




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Union Station waiting room, Chicago
: photo by Jack Delano, January 1943 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



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Volant, champion 14 foot dinghy under sail in Brisbane
: photographer unknown, 1907 (John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland)



Les toiles, c'est laid.

L' étoile, aussi.



Rrose Sélavy: phonetical pun lost in translation (The canvasses are ugly. The star too.)





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Racing skiff Ida in full sail, Australia racing championship, 1909: photographer unknown, 1907 (John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland)



Text Sources:
first play: q. Arturo Schwarz in Marcel Duchamp: La Mariée Mise à Nu Chez Marcel Duchamp, Même, 1974
second play: from Marcel Duchamp: Marchand du sel, 1958
third play: from Marcel Duchamp: Marchand du sel, 1958

Duchamp texts from Marcel Duchamp: plays and wins/joue et gagne, Yves Arman, 1984

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