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That's quite interesting as I would consider Duchamp as modern art history 101 and his readymades are the prototypical examples of subversive art / anti-art.
by dhritzkiv 6y ago
That's quite interesting as I would consider Duchamp as modern art history 101 and his readymades are the prototypical examples of subversive art / anti-art.
- bobthepanda 6y agoGiven the state of arts funding at least in the US, and depending on how old you are, people tend to forget these things. The last art history class I took was my sophmore year of high school. I don't think it's unreasonable for someone to forget particulars if it's that long ago.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y agoDuchamp's art also (arguably) marks the beginning of the transition from modernism to postmodernism - our current era. It's definitely modern, but it has little hints of postmodernism in it. I've never taken an art history class, but I do know of Duchamp, and I do think his name is known by anyone with even a passing curiosity with the world of art. The fact that he's relatively unknown here says a lot about the users of this site: highly knowledgeable folks, whose knowledge is probably much more specialized that they realize.