Readymade Artist
“Look papa, it’s Duchamp’s fountain!”
Fountain, Marcel Duchamp, 1917. Duchamp signed the work with the pseudonym R. Mutt.
These were the words of Anna, my 3 1/2 year-old, as we entered a men’s restroom at McDonald’s today. She’d learned about Duchamp’s famous work in a children’s book, which I had then shown her in one of my art history texts. It’s a joy to have a kid who identifies famous modernist artworks, openly (and mistakenly) attributes all Baroque orchestral music to Bach, and distinguishes between ballet, modern, and jazz dance.
Mama Chianti wrote:
What a hoot!! And it’s in McDonalds…a work of art in McDonalds…okay, snap out of it. You need to up-date your blog and tell the world about your job at Trinity Christian College (I’m so proud!). Mama
Posted on 16-Jun-08 at 4:05 pm | Permalink