Check out this article from the Art Knowledge News blog, a terrific resource on current art events all overt the world, that previews the show of assemblage and “staged tableaux” coming to MCASD LA Jolla this September.
Museums in Miniature: Works by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell will open September 26, 2009 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla. The exhibition explores the use of collage, assemblage, and staged tableaux by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell as plays on the notion of an exhibition space. Evocative juxtapositions, absurdities, and rebuses abound in Cornell’s work, demonstrating the enduring influence of Duchamp’s practice, and of Surrealism more broadly, during the second half of the 20th century.
Duchamp will be represented by MCASD’s The Green Box (1934) a compendium of manuscript notes, drawings, and photographs documenting the development of his major work, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1915-23), and….”
Read the rest of the original article here: Duchamp at MCASD and see the full size image of this picture, courtesy of the Norton Simon Museum:
