ART H256 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Action Painting, Erased De Kooning Drawing, Robert Rauschenberg
17 Sep 2016
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Marcel duchamp, fountain, 1917, unassisted readymade: duchamp went to a waste dump and picked out a urinal, placed it in the gallery upside. Whether mr. mutt with his own hand made the fountain or not has no importance. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view-- created a new thought for the object. Marcel duchamp, allegorie de genre (portrait de george washington), 1943. 4. trademark wigged coiffure when seen head on, and a map of the us, with part of. 4: has multiple focal points and it denies perspectival space. Robert rauschenberg, erased de kooning drawing, 1953: set out to discover whether an artwork could be produced entirely by erasure, some see it as an act of vandalism; others considered it a new work.
