FRIENDS OF THE BARONESS DADA

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THIS GROUP IS FOR THE FRIENDS & ADMIRERS OF ELSA VON FREYTAG-LORINGHOVEN

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The truth behind the "R. Mutt" 1917 FOUNTAIN readymade

Started by Visual Mom. Last reply by Visual Mom Dec 1, 2016. 3 Replies 1 Favorite

Excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.net where you can check the source matierial: First an object of scorn within the arts community, the Fountain has since become almost canonized by some as one of the most recognizable modernist works of sculpture. Art world experts polled by the sponsors of the 2004 Turner Prize, Gordon's gin, voted it "the most influential work of modern art." [20] [21] As recent scholarship documents, the work is likely more collaborative than it has been given credit for in twentieth-century art history. Duchamp indicates in a 1917 letter to his sister that a female friend was centrally involved in the conception of this work. As he writes: "One of my female friends who had adopted the pseudonym Richard Mutt sent me a porcelain urinal as a sculpture."[22] The piece is more in line with the scatological aesthetics of Duchamp's friend and neighbour, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, than Duchamp's.[23] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Duchamp_Fountaine.jpg/220px-Duchamp_Fountaine.jpg Continue

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Comment by Mary Anne on September 20, 2019 at 2:01pm: A surprise to find this here. I join to push the group up the page . . .

Comment by MoriceMarcuse on March 3, 2017 at 9:27am: I LIKE THIS POSE SO "DADA NATURAL".

Comment by Terry Reid on January 18, 2017 at 4:05am: MAMA can also be DADA........a quote from Louise Lovely (a.k.a. Louise Gibbs, jazzist, exAotearoaNZ, currently UK)

Comment by Liam Coerr on May 17, 2016 at 8:15am: My favorite picture of the Baroness.

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