MUS 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bicycle Wheel, Marcel Duchamp, Furniture Music
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Moving from examples from vienna to examples from france (paris) Removal of subjectivity: examples of writers, artists and composers seeking to make work that does not draw on the expressive needs and desires of the subjective self. Instead, leans upon mathematical structures/pure ideas which the artist discovers or observes somewhat scientifically: e(cid:454)pressio(cid:374) is su(cid:271)stituted (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:858)(cid:373)ethod(cid:859) so that (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:374)t is deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g else besides the content itself. Marcel duchamp (1887 1968: french artist who came to ny in 1915. Intense interest in scientific subjects, including x-rays, physics (especially motion and the then-new theory of relativity), hypnosis, optical effects, etc. Creates a new image of the unit of length: the readymade: bicycle wheel, bottle drying rack, snow shovel, urinal, etc, declared these as works of art in 1914. Alfred jarry (1873 1907: extremely eccentric writer, died at a young age of tuberculosis made worse by alcohol and drug abuse.
