Week 2 - Media Transformations and/in the Avant-garde

Having discussed Marcel Duchamp last semester in IASC 1Q98, and now again in this course, I have a greater understanding of his work. I had seen his work before and always knew him as 'the guy who put the urinal upside down', but now, I can actually understand some of the meaning he put into his work. His push to change the figurative definition of art and for others to look at objects differently was revolutionary and a big influence on many avant-garde artists, like Fluxus and other artists like Jeffrey Shaw.