Portrait of Marcel Duchamp

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Portrait of Marcel Duchamp by Baroness Freytag-Lohringhoven Photograph by Charles Sheeler as published in The Little Review: Quarterly Journal of Art and Letters Vol. 9, No. 2 (Winter 1922)

Portrait of Marcel Duchamp is a circa 1920–1922 work of art by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.[1] It is an example of assemblage, made of an amalgamation of broken wine glasses, assorted feathers, tree twigs, and other unidentifiable objects in reference to Marcel Duchamp, who created various ready-mades beginning in 1913.[2]

References

  1. ^ Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity—A Cultural Biography, MIT Press, 2003, pp. 466, 490, ISBN 026257215X
  2. ^ Atkins, Robert: Artspeak, 1990, Abbeville Press, ISBN 1-55859-010-2

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