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Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 16:16:17 +0200
From: patRice <gda@datacomm.ch>
Subject: Re: classic guide to strategy
Joseph Zitt wrote:
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> A heads-up to those who like or are interested in The Classic Guide to
> Strategy: Zorn will be performing it this coming Tuesday night at Tonic.
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hi y'all.
i don't have the "classic guide..." cd, so i can't look this up myself.
anyway: do any of you if said cd is based on the book of the same name
by the greatest samurai of all times, miyamoto musashi?
patRice
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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 10:26:14 -0400
From: "Michael Berman" <mberman@his.com>
Subject: Re: Duras:Duchamp Hidden Picture
The picture beneath the tray is the last work ever done by Marcel =
Duchamp. It is titled "Given: 1. The Illuminated Gas 2. The Waterfall" =
1969.
It wasn't revealed until after he died (he had claimed that he had given =
up art in favor of chess in 1923, but from 1946 until his death in 69 he =
was secretly working on this piece). It can only be seen at the =
Philadelphia Museum of Art, in the Duchamp room. It is hidden in the =
corner of the room. it is not a painting, its an instillation. You =
must peer through a tiny hole in an old wooden door, to view the seen =
(as the picture suggests). The figure itself is painted leather over =
plaster relief, mounted on velvet.
Most any book on Duchamp would have info on this piece and its relation =
to his main body of work, most notably "Large Glass (The Bride Stripped =
Bare By Her Bachelors, Even" his most celebrated "unfinished" work, =
also in the Philly Museum. The best essay is by Octavio Paz.
"Given" in french (how he titled the piece) is Etant Donnes. The title =
of Zorns composition.
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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 10:25:08 -0400
From: Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com>
Subject: Re: Duras:Duchamp Hidden Picture
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 10:26:14AM -0400, Michael Berman wrote:
> It wasn't revealed until after he died (he had claimed that he had given up art in favor of chess in 1923, but from 1946 until his death in 69 he was secretly working on this piece). It can only be seen at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in the Duchamp room. It is hidden in the corner of the room. it is not a painting, its an instillation. You must peer through a tiny hole in an old wooden door, to view the seen (as the picture suggests). The figure itself is painted leather over plaster relief, mounted on velvet.
I was at the Philly Museum a while back with some friends who'd never been
there. Looking at the Duchamp exhibit, one wandered into a small room which
was empty except for one wall being made of wood. He asked why it was
emtpy. I told him to look through the knothole. The look of revelation