[Jewelry making - Article 01217] - Re: [Orchid] Marcel Duchamp's influence...

[Richard W. Wise]

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    Marcel Duchamp & Art vs.Craft 

    Discussions about art and craft, Marcel Duchamp, wow I thought to
    myself, Orchid is becomming a true forum for the intellectual! But,
    then I read the posts.  What Neanderthals, troglydytes, shocking and
    disapointing too. Well ok so maybe the best thing is to limit the
    forum to discussions of the correct type of solder to use and other
    mundane technical concerns. 

    Well I agree with Barbara V, Duchamp would certainly turn over in
    his grave if he knew he was getting credit as a major influence on
    jewelry design. Most of the designs produced by De Patta, Macharini,
    Smith and the other Studio Jewelers of the 1930s-1950's came more
    from specific artistic movements such as The Bauhaus, Cubisim and
    Abstract Expressionism.  They were rarely interested in the inner
    meaning but simply copied the outer form. 

    The history of art for the last 150 years or so has been the history
    of a discipline turned inward.  Art used to be about images of
    things in the world or it least as the rich viewed the world.  But
    then came the birth of the camera and the death of the aristocratic
    class and art left with out an external referent, became about art
    itself.   So, in order to understand art in its modern
    manifestations you have to study art, its modern development and the
    intention of the individual artist. 

    That was Duchamp's point, or should have been.  As a result art has
    turned procateur, it may anger, it may shock something pretty much
    lacking in the history of jewelry design. 

Cheers,
Richard

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