Hi Zachary et. al., Yes - it's easy to miss if you don't know what to look for. You have to realize that you have to approach the wooden door in the room and peer through the holes. When I went there were many people around, and I expected there to be a queue to view Étant Donnés, but despite the people, no one was looking. I spent five or so minutes looking at the installation, and during that time no one queued up behind me. Maybe no one realized it was there. When I passed by later, no one was looking either. On completely different note, I once spent several minutes 'appreciating' a dirty outline of a rectangle on a gallery wall (at Los Angeles County Museum of Art) before realizing that the 'real' art was missing (removed for some reason or another), and I was looking at the shadow of dirt that had accumulated around the edges of the now-absent painting. -whit np - Charles Lloyd, some live show from 2000 On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Zachary Steiner wrote:
You have to know that it's there or you may miss it. I've been to the museum many times, being a Philly native, and even to the Duchamp room several times, but it wasn't until the most recent trip (this summer) that I saw Etant Donnes. It was only because of a staff member of the museum that we got to see the work--which was the highlight of the trip.
Zach
-----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-bounces+zsteiner=butler.edu@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-bounces+zsteiner=butler.edu@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Olivier Borzeix Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 3:39 PM To: Maurice Rickard Cc: Efrén del Valle; zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: thoughts on the Film...
dunno what is Étant Donnés so I cannot comment on that... but if you're able to name it and talk about it it's because it reached you somehow. And as you thought I should know it it means it's pretty public.
Olivier
Le 04-07-28, à 15:13, Maurice Rickard a écrit :
At 3:00 PM -0400 7/28/04, Olivier Borzeix wrote:
...and, less cinically, because unexposed art isn't art. An artist who's never gonna show, present or somehow expose anything because he doesn't want to is simply not an artist even if he's the truest, has the best integruty and talent in the world.
So what are we to make of Duchamp's _Etant Donnés_, then? --
Maurice Rickard http://mauricerickard.com/ | http://onezeromusic.com/
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