Marcel Duchamp
MoMA 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY, United StatesMoMA
“Why is this art?” is a question often asked by viewers of contemporary art. It is virtually impossible to answer it without referring to the work of Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968). Over a six-decade career, Duchamp challenged the very definition of the artwork, ushering in a new era of creative license—the reverberations of which are still […]
The Surrealist Book
MoMA 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY, United StatesMoMA
A book bound with shards of shattered glass. A manifesto enshrined in polished metal. Love poems seamlessly merging with solarized photographs. For artists and writers of the Surrealist movement, the book was a perfect vehicle for subversive experimentation and the promotion of Surrealism’s revolutionary tenets. Working collaboratively to unlock the unconscious, they transformed the bound […]