Le Processus Créatif by Marcel Duchamp


Le Processus Créatif
Title : Le Processus Créatif
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ISBN : 2905657251
Language : French
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : -
Publication : First published November 15, 1987

A bilingual French/English edition of a paper presented in 1957, as well as an article published in Art News the same year, by Marcel Duchamp. A summarizing of Duchamp's general theoretical framework concerning art as a cultural product as well as an independent, subjective endeavor.


Le Processus Créatif Reviews


  • Manon Palmer

    How does one make art? Or rather, who actually makes art?

    In this short essay, Marcel Duchamp argues that the artist is a medium. Refusing to believe his fellow artists, he refutes the idea that the artist is conscious of the interpretation of his work. Indeed, Marcel Duchamp acknowledges the spectator as a part of the creative process. The artist can only interpret his work through his own eyes, but a thousand spectators will form different opinions.

    In that regard, spectators prevail over artists for the simple reason that only they decide who gets to ascend into posterity.

  • MT

    “No acto criador o artista vai da intenção à realização passando por uma cadeia de reacções totalmente subjectivas. A sua luta pela realização é uma série de esforços, dores, satisfações, recusas e decisões que não podem nem devem ser plenamente conscientes, pelo menos no plano estético.

    O resultado do seu esforço é a diferença entre
    a intenção e a realização, diferença essa de que
    o artista não tem consciência.”