An Interview with Marcel Duchamp

This is a photo of Marcel Duchamp taken at the Walker Art Center in 1965, three years before the artist’s death. Photo: Eric Sutherland for the Walker Art CenterMarcel Duchamp - The Passage from Virgin to Bride - 1912 - oil on canvas - 23 3/8 x 21 1/4" (59.4 x 54 cm) - Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) New York, NY (click photo for larger image)“I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do...” These word were spoken by French born American artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) who is most closely associated with Cubism (a movement in which subject matter is broken up, analyzed and reassembled) and Dadaism (a movement which ridiculed contemporary culture and traditional art forms).

“To coincide with a current exhibition on Marcel Duchamp at the Barbican, London (until 9 June), here is an interview with the artist from the March 1993 issue of The Art Newspaper, until then unpublished.”