Histories and Theories of Intermedia

→ Continued from “Art and Thingness, Part One: Breton’s Ball, Duchamp’s Carrot” in issue 13. In a text written in response to the upheavals...

In modern art, the increasing resemblance of art objects to everyday objects raised the threat of eroding of any real difference between wo...

Like many eccentric people of my generation I have a folder of artful, profoundly prankish souvenirs from the late Ray Johnson. Too bad I ...

Interview of Marcel Duchamp on Canadian Radio Television, July 17, 1960 (translated by Sarah Skinner Kilborne) GUY VIAU. Marcel Duchamp, w...

The last hundred years of work indicate that it’s demonstrably impossible to destroy or dematerialize Art, which, like it or not, can only ...

The history of religion fails into three stages. Materialist, or natural religion, completed the final phase of its development in the Bron...

1. By generic objects we don’t mean objects that affect a kind of generic quality—brilliantly commonsensical and ordinary objects that come ...