DUCHAMP'S LAST DAY

Just moments after Duchamp died, his closest friend Man Ray took a photograph of him. His face is wan/ his eyes are closed/ he appea rs calm. Taking this image as a point of departure, Shambroom begins to examine the surrounding contextthe dinner with Man Ray and Robert Lebel, the night Duchamp died, the conversations about his own death at that dinner and elsewhere, and the larger question of whether this radical artists death can be read as an extension of his work.A fascinating essay that is both intimate and steeped i n art histo...[Leer más]