August 29, 2011
Marcel Duchamp, Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?, 1921 To make this work, Duchamp filled a small wire birdcage with blocks of white marble cut to the same dimensions as sugar cubes. Rose Sélavy is a pun on Eros c’est la vie (‘love is life’), and sneezing may be a coded reference to orgasm, making the title a sexual invitation. However, the thermometer, the cold marble, and the whiteness of the cage and cuttlebone all suggest frigidity. The birdcage is a symbol of confinement, and perhaps suggests the suppression of erotic climax. (from Tate Modern and National Gallery of Australia)

Marcel Duchamp, Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?, 1921

To make this work, Duchamp filled a small wire birdcage with blocks of white marble cut to the same dimensions as sugar cubes. Rose Sélavy is a pun on Eros c’est la vie (‘love is life’), and sneezing may be a coded reference to orgasm, making the title a sexual invitation. However, the thermometer, the cold marble, and the whiteness of the cage and cuttlebone all suggest frigidity. The birdcage is a symbol of confinement, and perhaps suggests the suppression of erotic climax.

(from Tate Modern and National Gallery of Australia)

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