ARTH 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Conceptual Art, Orgasm, The Bachelors
5 Dec 2017
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Keywords: cabaret voltaire, dada, readymade, mechanomorphic, anthropomorphic, photomontage, weimar republic, new women (germany, garconne. Key people: hugo ball, emmy hennings, marcel janco, marcel duchamp, baroness elsa von fretag-loringhoven, francis picabia, suzanna duchamp, hannah hoch, rrose selvay, florine stettheimer. Cabaret voltaire: example: marcel janco, cabaret voltaire, 1916. One way they did this was by rejecting categories (i. e. the categories of gender and art) Ready-mades: the ter(cid:373) (cid:862)read(cid:455)-(cid:373)ade(cid:863) (cid:449)as (cid:272)oi(cid:374)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) marcel duchamp to refer to objects of everyday life that are taken and incorporated into art, example: marcel duchamp, fountain, 1917. A urinal that is taken, placed upside down and put on a plinth. It is the fact that the urinal is signed and placed on a plinth, that makes it art. At the time of the original submission, he did not claim ownership for the piece. Baroness elsa von freytag-loringhoven has been sometimes characterized as the artist of this piece (the authorship of this groundbreaking object is not very stable)
