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Moira Roth is a legendary art historian whose writings on the unconventional lives and difficult art of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage are models of critical accessibility. Writing in an engagingly personal diaristic style, these classic essays are collected in Difference/Indiffrence.
–Publishers Weekly
The core of the book is provided by her two very influential and much cited essays of the 70's, Marcel Duchamp in America: A Self Ready-Made and The Aesthetic of Indifference, amplified by a series of interviews Roth conducted -- she is a virtuoso of the interview form....These talks both nuance our picture of Duchamp himself and trace the ripple effect of his work and persona upon American art in the third quarter of the 20th century. They are followed by a more personal section in which Roth in effect interviews herself, reflecting-from the distance of the present-upon her own bittersweet tale of engagement/disengagement with the Duchamp phenomenon.
–Sheldon Nodelman of Art in America
The core of the book is provided by her two very influential and much cited essays of the 70s, Marcel Duchamp in America: A Self Ready-Made and The Aesthetic of Indifference, amplified by a series of interviews Roth conducted -- she is a virtuoso of the interview form....These talks both nuance our picture of Duchamp himself and trace the ripple effect of his work and persona upon American art in the third quarter of the 20th century. They are followed by a more personal section in which Roth in effect interviews herself, reflecting-from the distance of the present-upon her own bittersweet tale of engagement/disengagement with the Duchamp phenomenon.
–Sheldon Nodelman of Art in America
–Publishers Weekly
The core of the book is provided by her two very influential and much cited essays of the 70's, Marcel Duchamp in America: A Self Ready-Made and The Aesthetic of Indifference, amplified by a series of interviews Roth conducted -- she is a virtuoso of the interview form....These talks both nuance our picture of Duchamp himself and trace the ripple effect of his work and persona upon American art in the third quarter of the 20th century. They are followed by a more personal section in which Roth in effect interviews herself, reflecting-from the distance of the present-upon her own bittersweet tale of engagement/disengagement with the Duchamp phenomenon.
–Sheldon Nodelman of Art in America
The core of the book is provided by her two very influential and much cited essays of the 70s, Marcel Duchamp in America: A Self Ready-Made and The Aesthetic of Indifference, amplified by a series of interviews Roth conducted -- she is a virtuoso of the interview form....These talks both nuance our picture of Duchamp himself and trace the ripple effect of his work and persona upon American art in the third quarter of the 20th century. They are followed by a more personal section in which Roth in effect interviews herself, reflecting-from the distance of the present-upon her own bittersweet tale of engagement/disengagement with the Duchamp phenomenon.
–Sheldon Nodelman of Art in America
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This book brings together for the first time Moira Roth's influential articles, lectures and interviews on the two men who embodied the very spirit of the avant-garde: Marcel Duchamp and John Cage.
Cage, who died in 1992, and Duchamp, who died in 1968, seemed to live on the permissive border of modernism, and later, of postmodernism. The artists have for almost thirty years fascinated, irritated, inspired, and daunted the author of these essays - Moira Roth.
At first they were an inspiration for her writing and teaching then, with their gradual transformation into 'classical' figures, she felt compelled to reconsider and re-evaluate them.
Cage, who died in 1992, and Duchamp, who died in 1968, seemed to live on the permissive border of modernism, and later, of postmodernism. The artists have for almost thirty years fascinated, irritated, inspired, and daunted the author of these essays - Moira Roth.
At first they were an inspiration for her writing and teaching then, with their gradual transformation into 'classical' figures, she felt compelled to reconsider and re-evaluate them.
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An article in which I place Duchamp, a French symbolist dandy and hermetic scholar, and Rrose Selavy, a femme fatale, in modernist America, and discuss the roles Duchamp's art and personae inventions played in American art history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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An article in which I place Duchamp, a French symbolist dandy and hermetic scholar, and Rrose Selavy, a femme fatale, in modernist America, and discuss the roles Duchamp's art and personae inventions played in American art history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shigeko kubota, moira roth, queer artists, video sculpture, indifferent aesthetic, cage studies, vito acconci, marcel duchamp, white paintings, john cage, gay artists, robert smithson, george segal, chance operations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cold War, Green Box, Faith Ringgold, Gertrude Stein, Merce Cunningham, Nude Descending, United States, Mona Lisa, Willia Marie, Armory Show, Fresh Widow, Naomi Sawelson-Gorse, University of California, Amelia Jones, American Museum of the Moving Image, Black Mountain College, Teeny Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare, The French Collection Series New!
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- John Cage (Ex)Plain(Ed) by Richard Kostelanetz on 6 pages
- Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp (Da Capo Paperback) by Pierre Cabanne on 5 pages
- Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) by Amelia Jones on 4 pages
- West Coast Duchamp by Bonnie Clearwater in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- One Lonely Night (Mike Hammer Series) by Mickey Spillane on page 19, page 22, and page 28
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