Why Was Futurism Important?

This article summarizes the artistic movement known as Futurism and suggests its importance in early twentieth century modern art.

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Marcel Duchamp – A Major Artist

Tennyson said of some minor scribbler that he was a louse on the locks of literature. Some artists and art critics have felt the same way about Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), the joker who first scrawled a moustache and goatee on the face of the Mona...

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Cashing out Dadaism

This hub is here to help understand Dada ideas on art and its worth. It includes a lot of Duchamp's thoughts on the piblic's prentitiousness and his rebellions against the social ideals.

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Kinetic Art- An Introduction

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Urinal Art

For the most part the urinal is a functional necessity but the urinal is art too. Not just the urinal itself but the area above and around it. Once very popular as somewhere to daub graffiti it is now recognised as an important place to post...

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Review of A&E's Breakout Kings

With over a dozen cop dramas on the major networks today, it begs the question, “Do we really need another one?" On the cable network A&E this one comes with a twist. From the producers of Prison Break comes Breakout Kings . ...

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Tognazzini And The New Duchamp

This is the art of today, it is the ordinary made extraordinary in ways that shake up the stagnant mind and bring the fantastic to reality.

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What is Dadaism and Dada Movement in Europe

       Dada was a movement that arose in Europe in the aftermath of World War I horrors. Due to the war, a number of intellectuals, writers and artists congregated in Zurich. They were mostly of French...

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Book review of Understanding Installation Art from Duchamp to Holzer by Mark Rosenthal

The book Understanding Installation Art from Duchamp to Holzer, by Mark Rosenthal, is an insightful book into the nature and history of installation art. Mr. Rosenthal makes the case that the medium of...

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What is Avant Garde?

A writer who works according to the conventions of the past, instead of inventing new ones, is really producing old rotting bananas. This is the central argument of exponents of avant-garde attitudes or in more modern parlance, “out there” attitudes; the word avant-garde may itself be a rotting banana since it is a product of a past generation.

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