At 12:03 pm -0700 20/5/00, Patricia wrote:
>Yep, he played chess and he
>played chess because he had achieved his freedom - he only made, as far as
>I know
>30-40 works in 50 or so years - he made art to make art, for himself - he was
>focused and free and I think it admirable. Of course, he had Arensberg behind
>him.
arturo schwarz count 421 works btw 1902 to 1968
(a whole life in perpetual check)
>I do commercial artwork, but my real art is for myself and I don't expect
>to sell
>it. I just do it for me, and work professionally at something else.
one of the must important topics to mduchamp was "human inconsistency"
schwarz talking about in XIV PERPETUAL CHECK (p.193)
"let us start with inconsistency and observe that it is thanks only to
inconsistency that humanity has survived. to be perfectly consistent with
oneself, in all circunstances, leads to intolerance and fanaticism.
inconsistency is the source of tolerance. it is a tantamount to an
awareness of the contradictions of the world. inconsistency as an
individual human actitude is simply a sum of uncertainties held in reserve
in the counciousness the world of values is not a world of polaristic
logic; and the refusal to make a choice once and for all betwen mutually
exclusive values, and thus to prejudice the future, is exactly what
inconsistency stands for. generally, inconsistency is practiced more than
proclaimed. it is a way of life . in fact life continuously places us
between alternative situations, between two doors both of which are marked
. entry, but neither exit. having once entered we are complelled to go on
to the bitter end. but duchamp has invented the door wich is neither open
nor closed."
...pez
