Robert Rauschenberg, 1951, as shot by Wallace Kirkland for Life.
from Life’s “The 40 Most Revealing Artist Portraits” series.
“Every country is good for different reasons. They are like different fruits. But Egypt is my favorite. Egypt is like a mango.”
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A devouring force comes at us from another direction, seducing us by playing on our yearning for the true real. Would that it would, would that it could, come clean, this true real. I so badly want that wink of recognition, that complicity with the nature of nature. But the more i want it, the more I realise it’s not for me. Nor for you either… which leaves us is [sic] this silly and often desperate place wanting the impossible so badly that while we believe it’s our rightful destiny and so act as accomplices of the real, we also know in our heart of hearts that the way we picture and talk is bound to a dense set of representational gimmicks which, to coin a phrase, have but an arbitrary relation to the slippery referent easing its way out of graspable sight.Michael Taussig, Mimesis and Alterity 1993 (via lalalachandev)
Title: Portrait of Marcel Duchamp
Artist: Victor Obsatz
Year: 1953
Materials/Techniques: Gelatin silver printDescription
In March 1953, the Greenwich Village gallery owner Michael Freilich (RoKo Gallery) asked 28 year-old Victor Obsatz to photograph Marcel Duchamp in his apartment on West 14th Street. The resulting double-exposure print pleased Duchamp very much, as he chose it especially for the front and back covers of Robert Lebel’s 1959 catalogue raisonné.The work has since become one of the most popular and sought-after images of the artist, and has been reproduced in a number of well-known texts on Duchamp, Dada, Surrealism, and recently in the The National Portrait Gallery’s 2009 exhibition “Inventing Marcel Duchamp, The Dynamics of Portraiture.”
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Illustrations of Maximilien Robespierre by Évariste Gamelin for the 1925 edition of Anatole France’s The Gods Are Athirst.
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