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DUCHAMP'S FOUNTAIN

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ABOUT THIS BLOG:


When I speak about fountains, I think of a pour-out; Not just that clear liquid that everyone washes in but that dark water from subterranean wells that comes from deep bedrock and carries traces of gold.

Art and art finding is connected to fountain work. Art is made in the light; it sometimes gets buried and then comes to light again. The small pieces of paper borne art in our care - we might take them for granted. They grow faded in a sunny window without a Venetian blind; we sometimes shelve them unappreciated if they no longer fit in with the new sofa. If we wait long enough, two inches of meteor fall-out will cover the wreckage of pots we cook in. Our world is destined toward the incline of subterranean Rome.

I am an old man in a young man’s body who wants to overeat but somehow stays thin. I can’t get young again or get enough of art. I’m an art lover; an international traveler who sometimes rides a soccer field. I appreciate my treasures found on the urban lawn; from uptown galleries to de-accessioning museums; from family and friends to mystery finds. My valuables like yours from other lifetimes, all have lives quite separate from the beds they sleep in. We’ll go together and wake some of these dreaming things. Some artifacts and the art we’ll look at won’t need any more light than they illumine themselves. Ars Ipsa loquitur – Art speaks for itself.

This site is my private journal, weblog, discovery space and scrapbook. Deco, Chinese and Japanese art, unmanned art, monuments, the American Academy in Rome; the eternal paper trail, 19th to 21st American sculpture; Egyptology; 21st century paintings of my own vintage, history along with rare first edition books and poetry will probably grab my attention as I pour through my belongings and photograph them here by the sea. But there is more, a lot more, and we’ll discover it here. Wittkower, Hegel, Lord Carnarvon, Fu Hao, the Holy Bible as an art form; Dali, Der Kunst; Hannah Glasse on cooking; Japanese woodblock Prints; 1920’s antiquarian Paris booksellers; Persian manuscripts; the art of Bonsai; Stanton Macdonald Wright: We’ll turn on the fountain and see what pours!♦