Fait Accompli.(artist Marcel Duchamp scholarship)(Brief Article)

Such is the nature of Duchamp scholarship that at times it's hard to tell the difference between a legitimate investigation of the artist's life and work and the sort of hagiography and trivia-mongering typical of the Net. Tout-Fait (French for readymade), the first online journal of Duchamp studies (www.

toutfait.com), is a case in point: Here it's an earth-shattering news item when a notary's stamp on the back of L.H.O.O.Q. proves to be authentic. That's because Tout-Fait is the brainchild of artist Rhonda Roland Shearer and her husband, renowned Harvard biologist Stephen Jay ...

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