Ep. 17 - Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" (1917)

The Lonely Palette

Arts, Podcast, Art, Museum, Painting, Modern Art, Visual Arts, Art History

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🗓️ 18 April 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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On the occasion of its hundredth birthday, we dive into the art world's greatest joke (splash!). See the images: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/4/17/episode-17-marcel-duchamps-fountain Music Used: Podington Bear, "A1 Rogue", "In My Head" The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, "In The Back Room", "Rafter", "FasterFasterBrighter", "Nesting", "Lamplist" Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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0:45.0	What you see is an ordinary porcelain new rhino, it's rotated 90 degrees, and on the rim there's an inscription are mapped
0:58.0	1917.
0:59.0	I see, I see a toilet.
1:04.0	That's what I see.
1:05.0	Is it art?
1:08.0	Is it art?
1:10.0	Looks like a urinal. I guess it's art in its own form, right?
1:18.0	I mean, when he made this, it was kind of like saying screw you though because it's it's just a
1:28.5	urinal yeah but I suppose he was clever because he was the first one who thought to do that.
1:34.0	Is it art? Of course it's art. It's all taken on.
1:38.0	Yeah. And it's very important and very iconic. It's shocking because it's not art and it's here for everyone to
1:47.9	see and consider light art. I mean I kind of just see it for what it is which is a urinal on its back.
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