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Volume 26: Issue 1
From Painting to Play: Duchamp and Stoppard
Author:
Péter Egri ELTE Angol-Amerikai Intézet Anglisztika Tanszék 1146 Budapest Ajtósi Dürer sor 19-21 Hungary 19-21 Hungary

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Pages:
55–64
Online Publication Date:
25 Aug 2006
Publication Date:
01 Jan 1999
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1010979604390
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Abstract  

This paper provides a comparative analysis of Marcel Duchamp's half-Cubist, half-Futurist painting Nude Descending a Staircase (1912) and Tom Stoppard's play Artist Descending a Staircase (1972). It examines the way in which Stoppard playfully temporalizes Duchamp's dynamic concept of space and confronts traditional and avant-garde positions of art. A continuation of After Magritte and an anticipation of Travesties, Stoppard's Artist Descending a Staircase is a brilliant series of contradictory caricatures voicing its author's often repeated and sometimes revised conviction: "In any community of a thousand souls there will be nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky dog painting or writing about the other nine hundred and ninety-nine." (ADS, 144)

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