New Perspectives About the Authorship of Fountain

An Updated Review of the Discussion

Authors

  • Paula Arrieta Gutiérrez Departamento de Teoría de las Artes. Facultad de Artes. Universidad de Chile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24215/24691488e057

Keywords:

Art history, feminist art criticism, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Marcel Duchamp, ready made

Abstract

New research and the appearance in the 80s of a letter from Marcel Duchamp to his sister have revived the discussion around the authorship of Fountain, which considered a decisive piece of modern and contemporary art. This article presents an updated review of the discussion with the purpose of organizing the arguments, identifying the inductive processes in it and proposing possible critical paths that mainly point to the construction of the history of art based on a milestone, the invisibility of women’s participation in it and the crossings and contaminations that determine the artistic production of an era. The objective is not to discover the truth but rather to expose the existing documentation and bring one of the most important milestones in art history to the present, as a dynamic way to reconstruct the stories that determine its senses.

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Published

2020-11-27

How to Cite

Arrieta Gutiérrez, P. (2020). New Perspectives About the Authorship of Fountain: An Updated Review of the Discussion. Arte E Investigación, (18), e057. https://doi.org/10.24215/24691488e057

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No. 18 (2020): Arte e Investigación 18

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Articles

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