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,
“... You step up to the wooden door, a heavy, rustic affair set in a brick arch, and you peer through two small holes conveniently set at around head height. You do this not because you are a snoop, but because this is an installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Even so, you feel like a snoop, and worse. As Calvin Tomkins says, no amount of practice or mental preparation will diminish the complicated shock of what you see on the other side of the door ... ”