Duchamp, Marcel, de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (Boîte-en-Valise) (From or By Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy [Box in a Valise]), 1941/1966, glass, vinyl, lithographs on paper, ceramic, wood, cloth-covered board
Collection Walker Art Center, Gift of Ann and Barrie Birks, 1994

Marcel Duchamp: Luncheon, 10/18/65
Luncheon roundtable discussion. Participants include Marcel Duchamp, Teeny Duchamp, and Martin Friedman, Walker Art Center director.

All files are in RealAudio format.

Track 1, 7:40 Making a living as an artist. Question: Is current pop art lacking in humor and wit?	Track 2, 4:51 Question: Which young artists do you find interesting? Question: Do young artists become famous too quickly, before developing technique? Discussion: reactions against abstract expressionism, return to nature and urban landscape in nature.	Track 3, 5:36 Discussion: painting soup cans, coke bottle and the role of the artist in photo-realism. Discussion: surrealism; Robert Motherwell.
Track 4, 6:38 Question: Is there significant art in France outside of Paris? Question: Can an artist work outside of New York City? The relation between Minneapolis and New York City.	Track 5, 8:58 Discussion: Sense of humor in art, found objects in art, and beauty. Discussion: Signing a painting by another artist for the first time in a restaurant, "pharmacy" a painting appropriated by Duchamp. Question: Relationship to subject matter, does he love/respect them?	Track 6, 11:11 Discussion: readymades, beauty through repetition (Mona Lisa with and without moustache), palindromes.
Track 7, 4:17 Discussion: contradiction in art; "Please Touch" a mass produced plastic breast sculpture