Carroll Janis

British sources say as many as a hundred died in the capital, Kathmandu, and 40 in incidents elsewhere. Tens of thousands marched through the capital peacefully. The trouble began when splinter groups marched on the royal palace.

Tämä on oktober 1942, ja suurta 19-vuotiaan asuntoa keskustelussa Manhattanin keskustelussa on yksi suurimmista elinkeinoarvoisuuksista. Tämä ei ole yleinen esitys, jossa on tehtäviä paitoja.

Last exhibition in Paris a few years earlier, the surrealist poet Andre Breton and the artist Marcel Duchamp had hung sacks of coal from the ceiling and given visitors flashlights so they could see in the darkened rooms. This new exhibition in New York, designed by the man who 25 years earlier had shocked the art world by signing a white porcelain urinal and calling it art, promised to be equally unusual.

But Dadaism, Cubism, Futurism. They'd come of age during the turmoil of the First World War. By 1942, Europe was plunged into a second one. Duchamp was among the artists who'd taken sanctuary in America. The money from this exhibition in New York would be sent back to France to help the war effort. But surrealism was never serious for long.

To add to this playful atmosphere, Duchamp wanted a group of children literally to play among the works of art. That was where the young Carol Janis, who was then aged 11,

Marcel Duchamp was born in France in 1887. In his early twenties he created his own brand of cubism. And in 1912 his depiction of a body as a fluttering mechanism, nude descending a staircase, created a sensation when it was shown in New York. But although his name was associated with some of the great movements of the time, Duchamp preferred to stand alone, as he explained years later in an interview.

Duchampin suurin osallistuminen oli se, mitä hän kutsui valmiina. Nämä olivat normaaleja massiproduktioiden asioita, kuten urinali tai kylmykseli, joita Duchamp liittyi kylmykseliin. Tarkoituksena Duchampin idea oli, että kun valmistelee normaalin asiaa ja suunnittelee sen taiteeseen, niin taiteilija antoi siitä uuden tarkoituksen.

Mikä olisi tapahtunut, jos näitä tehtäviä järjestelmiä olisi mahtavaa tuotetta, ja me voisimme kaikki ostaa yhden tai kaksi tuntia? Mitä olisi tapahtunut? Ei, ei, ei. Ne pitäisi kirjoittaa. Ne on kirjoittaneet ja kertoneet. Kyllä. Yhdysvaltojen lisäksi, kuten jokaisella tehtävällä. Joten todennäköisesti sinä pysyit hyvin yhdessä tehtäviä arvoja? Kyllä, todennäköisesti minun pitäisi, koska todennäköisesti minä olisin. Minä olisin todennäköisesti yhdysvaltojen lisäksi.

Carol's parents, Sidney and Harriet Janis' art gallery in New York, was a beacon for new avant-garde artists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. But it was Marcel Duchamp, their friend, whom Carol says his parents treasured most. In 1952 Sidney Janis agreed to host an exhibition of Dadaism that Duchamp wanted to curate. In return, Janis asked, would Duchamp show his famous urinal, the fountain?