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An Interview With Lucien Hervé, Daniel J. Naegele
An Interview With Lucien Hervé, Daniel J. Naegele
Daniel J. Naegele
The architect of the century, Le Corbusier built less than sixty buildings yet published more than fifty books. These books are both verbal and visual, relying heavily on an illustrative text composed largely of photographs. In the 1922 publicity brochure for his forthcoming Vers une architecture Le Corbusier boasted, "This book derives its eloquence from the new means; its magnificent illustrations hold next to the next a parallel discourse, and one of great power".
The Ready-Made: Duchamp's Thing, Daniel J. Naegele
The Ready-Made: Duchamp's Thing, Daniel J. Naegele
Daniel J. Naegele
Marcel Duchamp fully appreciated the twentieth century's proclivity for certainty and classification and this attitude became an essential component of his art. In this he was not unlike Freud or Einstein or, in his immediate artistic milieu of belle ipoque Paris, Stravinsky or Raymond Roussel. Of the playwright Roussel, Duchamp once noted with admiration that "starting with a sentence ... he made a word game with kinds of parentheses ... His word play had a hidden meaning ... It was an obscurity of another order. Roussel had economically undermined the totalizing tendency of word order, throwing all of its accepted …