2025.12.03
Gustave Courbet Woman with White Stockings (La Femme aux bas blancs) 1864 The Barnes Foundation
Apparently, it was 92 years ago today that Marcel Duchamp saw Courbet's La Femme aux bas blancs for the first time (in person) at the Barnes Foundation. "In another etching from the 1968 series, Duchamp appropriated the image of a seated nude from Gustave Courbet's painting Woman with White Stockings (1864), to which he added a rather nondescript bird, creating a delightful pun on faucon (falcon)--although the creature looks more like a lovebird than a bird of prey--a pun that also can be read as faux con, or "false cunt". (Taylor, Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés, 108)
Marcel Duchamp Morceaux choisis d'après Courbet (Selected Details after Courbet) 1968 The Philadelphia Art Museum
I wonder if the "nondescript bird" is also a selected detail, but from some other Courbet painting.
2024.12.03
11:59
451 Rhawn Gallery
2015.12.03
ASouq 001
Futurist / Brutalist
In the future, all Gyms will be done in the Brutalist style.
2007.12.03
Guess Who
Both the profane and the sacred are human "being". Take away the qualifying hierarchy and you'll see the whole picture, which is much more.
After reading The Sacred and the Profane perhaps pick up Slovoj Zizek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity. It might help fill out the "whole picture."
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I forgot a subcategory:
fertile space
conceptual space
pregnant space
assimilating space
metabolic space
diaphragmic space
networked space
osmotic space
electromagnetic space
omni-frequency space
for a school I'd go:
inside -- assimilating space and omni-frequency space
outside -- metabolic space
2002.12.03
Damien Hirst I Ain't
1933.12.03 Sunday [Barnes Foundation]
Invited by Albert Barnes to visit his Foundation, which opened as a school at Merion Station in 1925, Duchamp travels to Philadelphia for the day. Barnes speaks with enthusiasm of the Brancusi exhibition and "is very kind", but Duchamp, who is hoping that Barnes might buy a Brancusi, "is not sure just how far his kindness will go."
In the formidable collection of old masters, antique furniture, objects, and "modern" paintings, including fine examples of Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, Seurat, and Henri Rousseau, Barnes has Femme aux bas blancs by Gustave Courbet: a provocatively posed, unclothed young woman, semi-reclining against the foot of a tree, who impudently eyes the painter (or onlooker) while she pulls on a pair of white stockings.
Ephemerides
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