The Case of Marcel Duchamp - ACE145.3

Duchamp’s first painting, Landscape at Blainville (1902), a sketch of a Beck-Auer gas mantle; other early work including Portrait of the Artist’s Father (1910), The Chess Game (1910), Nude with Black Stockings (1910), The Laundry Barge (1910), Portrait of Dr Dumouchel (1910), From this last, Holmes infers that Duchamp was interested in the human aura. Paradise (1911). Sketch for Cubist-influenced version of The Chess Players (1911), and the painting itself. Holmes uses a praxinoscope; Duchamp wanted movement. Examples of Eadweard Muybridge’s sequential photography. Etienne-Jules Marey’s photographic gun; examples of his chronophotography. Woman and dog in park. Lady Dulcinea (1911), an early attempt to suggest "a demultiplication of the image". Duchamp turned his attention to moving machines – a version of Coffee Mill (1911). Another Duchamp television interview, in which he talks about movement. Holmes and Watson discuss representation of movement. Marcel Duchamp Naked – Sad Young Man on a Train (1911), the use of "kinetic cubism". Sketches – of a figure going up a staircase, and Nude on a Ladder (1908). Chorus girl walking down staircase, and both versions of Nude Descending a Staircase (1912). Duchamp’s VO says that he finished with Cubism at the end of 1912. Holmes explains Duchamp’s liking for writers such as Jules Laforgue, and his new way of working developed around 1912.