…that the level lighting was quite professional
and carefully, and carefully done.
And of course the third piece is that it was
a large-format studio camera.
Now, the previous attribution had been to
Man Ray, who in 1915 I think would have not
been prepared to meet any of those, any of
those standards.
So that and the stamp on the back help dismiss
Man Ray and, you know, lean us toward thinking
about Julie in a very strong way.
And to Brandon's question about how this fits
into a larger biographical documentary project,
it's wonderful to read Crotti’s statements
about this sculpture at the time that he produced
it.
And fortunately he was quoted in accounts
of the piece at the time.
And he did see it although it was quite abstract.
He described it as an expression of his idea
of how Marcel Duchamp is.
If you're interested in the exact quotation,
it’s included in the catalogue entry on
the piece.
I’m not quoting it verbatim, obviously.
But I think that there's definitely, it's
obvious that, you know, as Jim has demonstrated
and discussed that Crotti had a very close
relationship to Duchamp and a great deal admiration
from this moment in 1915 for the rest of his
life.
And I think you're right to suggest that Crotti
did, from an early, from a very early moment
in his career, have a desire to document both
Marcel Duchamp as an individual and his relationship
to him.
And so we're just really, really delighted
that we've been able to include the photograph
of the sculpture as well as these related
drawings that again help us to nuance still
further this very important relationship.
Well, as you can see, we… there's still
lots of food for thought.
We've… our discussions are really never
terribly brief.
There’s always lots to think about.
We're so grateful to contributions from the
audience.
I think given the hour, it's about quarter
of twelve, we’ve already kept you a little
longer then we had intended to, that we’ll
break at this time and we hope that you all
can come back and join us at one o'clock for
the EP Richardson Symposium which will provide
an opportunity to hear from another group
of scholars about aspects of self-construction
and portrayal in the career Marcel Duchamp.
Thank you so much for joining us today.
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