Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall: Symposium-concert-intervention-exhibitions

by Banz, Stefan

• ISBN13: 9783037641569
• ISBN10: 3037641568
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-31
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

In August 1946, Marcel Duchamp spent five weeks in Switzerland, including five days at the Hotel Bellevue (today, Le Baron Tavernier) near Chexbres, on Lake Geneva. During his stay he discovered the Forestay waterfall. No research was ever done as to why the artist chose this waterfall which became the starting point for, and ultimately the landscape of, his famous final masterpiece, Étant donnés: 1 la chute d'eau, 2 le gaz d'éclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas). A multidisciplinary event that took place in May, 2010 in Cully, on Lake Geneva, near the Forestay waterfall, attempted to provide answers to this and many other questions about Duchamp's work. This publication documents the event. Included are special artistic contributions by Melanie Althaus, Ecke Bonk, Andreas Glauser, Peter Roesch, Roman Signer, Tadanori Yokoo, and many others. Published with Association Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Acknowledgments	p. 14
Seven Photographs of the Forestay Waterfall	p. 16
The Waterfall - The Landscape
Paysage fautif Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall	p. 26
"The lake changes its dress every hour" Marcel Duchamp in Vevey	p. 58
In the Beginning, There Was Mary Marcel Duchamp, Mary Reynolds, and the Landscape Backdrop of Étant donnés	p. 70
Landscape as Ironic Causality in Duchamp's Étant donnés	p. 86
Water Leaking on All Floors	p. 98
Étant Donnés
Resisting Courbet's Retinal Revolution Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés and the Erotic Legacy of Cubist Painting	p. 112
Étant donnés as a Form of Experience	p. 132
Notre Dame des désirs Gynomorphism in Marcel Duchamp's Chat Ouvert	p. 146
Étant donnés, Chess Enigma?	p. 158
Contextualization of Étant Donnés
Beyond Swiss Cheese and Bullet Holes - Part II And Some Other Elements in Duchamp's Notorious Endspiel, Étant donnés	p. 172
Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder	p. 190
The Hermetic Work Duchamp, Étant donnés, and Its Posterity	p. 208
Duchamp as a Scientist, Artifex, and Semiotic-Philosopher His Notes of the "Infra-mince" (1934/35-1945)	p. 216
Looking on the Other Side of the Waterfall
The "Spiritualist of Woolworth"	p. 234
Duchamp in the Eyes of Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson
The Green Ray	p. 240
Marcel Duchamp's Lost Work of Art
The Missed Encounter with Le Corbusier	p. 258
Drinking Black Coffee
The Hinge at the End of the Mind	p. 278
Duchamp's Work in Progress
Concert - Intervention - Exhibitions
Plays Sonitus Errans after Marcel Duchamp's Musical Erratum, Salle Davel, Cully	p. 298
Installation: Intervention in the Forestay Waterfall, Bellevue-Chexbres	p. 300
50cc Eau de Forestay, 110gr Auer von Welsbach ... et quelques rayons cosmiques	p. 304
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Architect: Melanie Althaus
Cosmic Diagram	p. 306
On Ecke Bonk's Exhibition and Melanie Althaus's Architecture
I Want to Grasp Things with the Mind the Way the Penis is Grasped by the Vagina	p. 320
Exhibition with Works and Documents by More Than Fifty Artists, Galerie Davel 14, Cully
Gradiva on the Trail	p. 324
On the Exhibition at Galerie Davel 14
Exhibited Works and Documents	p. 343
Materials
The Forestay Waterfall, Bellevue-Chexbres, in Postcards	p. 349
Hotel Bellevue, Bellevue near Chexbres, in Postcards	p. 356
Hotel Bellevue, Chardonne, in Postcards	p. 366
Excerpts from the Archive of Felix Kälin	p. 371
Marcel Duchamp's Visits to Switzerland, 1946 and 1968	p. 387
Étant donnés in Marcel Duchamp's Letters to Maria Martins	p. 391
Biographies	p. 394
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