2001.03.28 09:02
theological pomo
Rick,
Thanks for forwarding the article. As it happens I recently subscribed to ctheory, so I received the article yesterday. Yes it looks interesting, but I haven't read it yet. Admittedly, I know very little about Goethe (meaning I actually have yet to read anything he has written), yet I have read most of Baudrillard's Simulacra And Simulation, plus I have seen some of the movies referenced. I'll try to read the article tonight and then try to respond.
Yesterday, I read a very interesting article of Duchamp's last work in Art In America (which I received yesterday). The piece is written like a detective story (albeit unwittingly), and is exactly the type of art history I like. I was throughout reminded of my 'investigations' and 'discoveries' regarding Piranesi's Ichnographia Campi Martii and also the architectural(?) of St. Helena. There is a Duchamp quote in the article that makes an uncanny connection to the Campo Marzio, even.
Steve
2001.03.28 09:53
Duchamp striptease quondam Piranesi, even
In Francis M. Naumann's "Marcel and Maria", a fascinating article on Duchamp's Ètant Donnès in Art in America, April 2001, Duchamp is quoted as having said the following:
"I want to grasp things with the mind the way the penis is grasped by the vagina."
Naumann's article is all about finding clues about meaning purposely hidden by Duchamp within his oeuvre.
Piranesi's Ichnographia Campus Martius contains a nimiety of purposely hidden clues as well.
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