Sounds like hell to me
Michael Wood, 13 November 1997
The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp
by Arturo Schwartz.
Thames and Hudson, 292 pp., £145, September 1997,0 500 09250 8 Show More
by Arturo Schwartz.
Thames and Hudson, 292 pp., £145, September 1997,
“... He was perhaps better known for his readymades – the bicycle wheel, the urinal, the snow shovel – than for his paintings. The most famous of his jokes about art was his drawing a moustache and a small goatee on a reproduction of La Gioconda, with the letters L.H.O.O.Q. printed by hand beneath. Pronounced in French, these letters sound like ... ”