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Robert D. Graff

A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp

    RELEASE

    1956-01-01

    BUGET

    N/A

    LENGTH

    30 min

    Description

    Filmed amidst the Arensberg collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where 35 works by Marcel Duchamp are gathered, this 1956 NBC interview features the artist talking with James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the Guggenheim Museum. Duchamp describes his transition away from Impressionism toward a Cubist, and then post-Cubist, approach, providing commentary while standing before Nude Descending a Staircase