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TitleFresh Widow

Creator nameDuchamp, Marcel

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1920

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMiniature French window, painted wood frame, and eight panels of glass covered with black leather

Dimensions30 1/2 x 17 5/8 in. (77.5 44.8 cm), on wood sill, 3/4 x 21 4 in. (1.9 x 53.3 x 10.2 cm)

LocationMuseum of Modern Art, New York

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81028

Accession number151.1953

SubjectsWindows in artDadaismPuns and punningSculpture, Modern--20th centurySculpture, French--20th century

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The Author

Molly Nesbit

Atget’s Seven Albums

Between 1902 and now, the French definition of the author has gone vague: the author is a general case, an orphan; some say corpse. It is a definition too diffuse to be useful; worse, it has stripped the author of distinction. As if in flight from such a fate, lately...

Author

Molly Nesbit

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.90-101

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32058&redirecttoanchor=16972

Chapter subject tags:Atget, Eugène, 1857-1932Photography, Artistic--France--HistoryCopyright--France--HistoryPhilosophy, French--20th centuryParis (France)--Social conditionsPhotograph albumsPhotography--France--History--19th century

The Artist Readymade: Marcel Duchamp and the Société Anonyme

David Joselit

The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America

In 1920 Marcel Duchamp, the president of the Société Anonyme, designed stationery for the new organization. The logo he produced is sometimes called a “laughing ass,” but is, in fact, a chess knight...

Author

David Joselit

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.33-43

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00159.006

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Chapter subject tags:Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968Art--Economic aspectsArt, ModernArt--PhilosophyLace and lace making--History

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