Modern/Postmodern American Poetry - Spring 2005 - Prof. Steve Evans

After Patriarchal Poetry? Feminism, Gender, and the Avant-Garde in 20th-Century American Poetry & Poetics

Slides for English 649 - 14 February 2005 (numbers in parentheses refer to Schwartz's cataloging of Duchamp's works)

1 The Bush 1910-11 (214) - fauvist, first use of title as element
2 The Chess Game 1910 (185)
3 Yvonne & Magdeleine Torn in Tatters 1911 (221) - déchiquetées - (diced) - each sister twice
4 Sonata 1911 (229)
5 Sad Young Man on the Train 1911 (238) - note pipe, Paris-Rouen
6 Nude Descending a Staircase No 1 1911 (239) - cinema, Muybridge motion studies
7 Nude Descending a Staircase No2 1912 (242) - not a scandal until 1913 Armory Show
8 Nude Descending (detail)
9 King & Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes 1912
10 Study for King & Queen 1912
11 Passage de La Vierge a La Mariee 1912 (252)
mechanical elements, visceral forms
12 Mariee (The Bride) 1912 (253)
13 Mariee (The Bride) 1912
14 The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even 1915-1923 (404) definitively "inachevée"- dust breeding 1920, broken 1931, repaired 1936
15 Coffee Mill 1911
16 Chocolate Grinder No 2 1914 (264)
17 Nine Malic Moulds 1914
18 Nine Malic Moulds 1914-1915
19 Bride Stripped Bare.... 1915-1923
20 Bride Stripped Bare diagram
21 Bottle Rack 1914/1964
22 In Advance of the Broken Arm 1915/1964
23 Girl at Bed Stead 1916 (344)
24 Fountain 1917/1950 copy, 2nd version (345)
25 Tu M' 1918 (Yale; 354)
26 LHOOOQ 1919 (369)
27 Fresh Widow 1920 (376) - first work signed Rrose Selavy; polished leather
28 Eau de Belle Haleine 1921
29 Ceiling of Coal Sacks 1938 (installation)
30 "Mile of String" First Papers of Surrealism 1942
31 Etant Donnees 1946-1966 (det. door) (634) - illuminating gas, waterfall - exhibited in Philadelphia 1969
32 Etant Donnees 1946-1966 (view) (634)
33 Female Fig Leaf 1950
34 Dart-Object 1951
35 Wedge of Chastity 1954
36 Photo of Duchamp in West 10th St. Apt 1956
37 Self-Portrait in Profile 1958 (torn paper)