"In this dazzling, dizzying first collection, poet Sara Cahill Marron draws inspiration from two seemingly very disparate sources. The first, Marcel Duchamp’s painting by that name (which celebrated its centenary in the year of this book's publication), appears on the book’s cover. Created as a site-specific commission, which explains its odd dimensions (thus one of the “reasons”), Duchamp incorporated references to much of his prior work, while pointing the way (literally) to his move beyond painting (one interpretation of the title is a contraction for “you bore me”).
It is, then, a work simultaneously about looking back and looking forward, working within limitations, and shattering them." read more here.
$16.50
Publication Date: August 1, 2018
Paperback, 80 pages
ISBN: 978-1-937968-45-8
Marcel Duchamp
Tu m', 1918
Oil on canvas, with bottle brush, safety pins, and bolt
27 1/2 × 119 3/10 in | 69.8 × 303 cm
"readymade” sculptures: pieces composed of prefabricated objects such as a urinal, a shovel, or a bicycle wheel affixed to a wooden stool, which the artist situated in the middle of the exhibition space. Duchamp saw the readymade as an opportunity to free art from the traditional confines of taste and beauty.
Marcel Duchamp made irreverent, wildly inventive art that blazed new trails for the 20th-century avant-garde. He briefly worked in a Cubist mode and helped spur movements including Dada and Conceptualism. Though his practice spanned drawing, painting, and installation, Duchamp is perhaps most famous for his “readymade” sculptures: Duchamp saw the readymade as an opportunity to free art from traditional confines of taste and beauty. He studied at Académie Julian before becoming involved in the avant-garde circles of New York and Paris. Duchamp also played tournament chess and, in the last decades of his life, worked in secret on a final installation, Étant donnés (1946–66).
What is beadwork?
Beadwork used to count repetitions of prayers, chants, or mantras in various religions
Used in Religions
Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto, Islam, Sikhism, Christianity, and
Forms of Beaded Devotion
Chotki, Dhikr, Japamala, Rosary, Jaap Sahib, to count repetitions of prayers, chants, or mantras
The use of beads in prayer has ancient origins that can be traced back several millennia across multiple cultures and religions.
The word bead in English is derived from an Old English word bede which means prayer.
Early Origins
The earliest known use of beads for religious purposes dates back to ancient Hindu practices, approximately 3,000 years ago. However, there is evidence of even earlier use:
Ostrich eggshell beads found in Africa date back to 10,000 BC.
A fresco from the prehistoric settlement of Akrotiri on Santorini, Greece, dating to the 17th century BC (c. 1613 BC), shows the oldest known image of a string of beads in a religious context.