Cornelia Parker
Chooses the photograph Dust Breeding by Man Ray
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Works include Cold Dark Matter - an exploded shed - and The Maybe, for which Tilda Swinton lay asleep in a glass box. Cold Dark Matter will be on display on billboards around the country as part of Art Everyone.
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Dust Breeding by Man Ray
Cornelia Parker chooses a 1920 photograph by Man Ray called Dust聽Breeding,聽which聽captures the accumulation of dust on Marcel Duchamp's artwork The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass).聽
Image:聽Man Ray, Dust Breeding (Elevage de poussiere) (1920-64).
漏 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel / Vera & Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art / The Bridgeman Art Library
From the Archive
Man Ray
Man Ray on his聽obsession聽with inanimate objects.
From Review 24 Mar 1972 on 91热爆 Two
Photo by Carl Van Vechten, courtesy of Library of Congress.
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp on Cubism and his work The Bride Stipped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.
From Art - Anti-Art 13 Nov 1959 on 91热爆 91热爆 Service
Edouard L Mesens
Poet and composer Edouard Mesens on his friendship with the then little-known Man Ray, Duchamp and Francis Picabia.
From Edouard L Mesens: Strange Encounter In The Third Programme 24 Feb 1970 on 91热爆 Third Programme
Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker on聽squashing 60聽brass-band instruments and suspending them in a circle.
Image courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London
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