Modernism, Amodernism and Marcel Duchamp, or why is a urinal no longer just a plumbing fixture?

Owen F. Smith

Two forms of Modernism

Modernism as a Traditionfour primary elements

1. reduction to essential properties

2. move towards abstraction

3. intensification of personal expression

4. recognition of intrinsic value in art

Modernism as an evolutionary condition

High Modernism and Amodernism

DADA 1914-1924

Marcel Duchamp

SINCE THE TUBES OF PAINT USEDBY AN ARTIST ARE MANUFACTURED AND READY-MADE PRODUCTS WE MUST CONCLUDE THAT ALL THE PAINTINGS IN THE WORLD ARE "READY-MADES AIDED" AND ALSO WORKS OF ASSEMBLAGE - M.D.

Fin(or, just the beginning . . . .)

Paul Neufeld

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