Nude Descending a Staircase
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Among his initial attempts was a series of paintings of Campbell’s Soup cans, which Henry Geldzahler, the art curator, called “the Nude Descending a Staircase of the Pop movement.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2020
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2″ drew inspiration from Muybridge’s pioneering stop-motion imagery.
From New York Times • May 21, 2013
Roosevelt particularly scorned Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, and wondered if the painter belonged to the school of "Parallelopipedonists, or Knights of the Isosceles Triangle".
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2013
Many -------of the style of painting exemplified by Marcel Duchamp's work focused on Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase as the -------of what they detested about modern art.
From SAT Tests
Way back in 191 3, an unwary art critic covered himself with retrospective ignominy by mocking Dadaist Marcel Duchamp's cubistic Nude Descending a Staircase as looking more like "an explosion in a shingle factory."
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