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writing in the margins

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 4:13:17 AM

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Marcel Duchamp’s female alter-ego Rrose Sélavy fully surfaced in 1921 — a sultry, stylish vixen in photographs by Man Ray. Her name sounds like Eros, c’est la vie, or “Eros, that’s life.” Not just a pretty picture and a fantastic name, Rrose was Marcel, snagging bylines for the Why Not Sneeze Rrose Sélavy? readymade of marble sugar cubes in a birdcage, Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema, http://youtu.be/dXINTf8kXCc and others. Glamorous, at times more evidently masculine, Rrose wasn’t the surrealist’s first genderfuck – observe his moustached Mona Lisa.

1919

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Comments

Edward Piercyedwardpiercy Friday, March 30, 2012 5:54:38 PM

I wonder if he shaved his legs?

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Carlo GrassiniCarloFon Monday, April 23, 2012 2:53:58 PM

I was wondering if the Mona Lisa had hairy armpits?
YOU know we CATS are into fur big time. cat

Edward Piercyedwardpiercy Friday, April 27, 2012 1:09:35 AM

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