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Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1999

Studio Blue

Three adult figures walk on a boardwalk over reed-filled water, one carrying a baby, wearing clothes in red, blue, and gray tones, with shadowy trees and a tent structure in the background. Japanese characters in red and black ink appear at upper left and bottom right.

No. 37: Miyanokoshi, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)", c. 1835/38

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Fates Gathering in the Stars, 1887

Elihu Vedder

A work made of book with color off-set lithographs on white wove paper, with yellow wove paper cover.

The Hairy Who Sideshow, 1967

The Hairy Who (Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Jim Falconer, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum)

A three-part panel featuring a variety of scenes, vertically stacked and richly painted. The central panel features the Virgin Mary and and Child flanked by archangels Gabriel and Michael, twelve disciples below them in grid formation.

Triptych Icon, Late 17th century

A work made of tin-glazed earthenware.

Vase Depicting a Phoenixlike Bird, 1700–50

Talavera Poblana

A work made of acrylic on canvas.

Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 1968

Karl Wirsum

A work made of lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

How Beautiful are the Arts, from Croquis Lithographiques...1823, 1823

Hippolyte Bellangé

A work made of watercolor with pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on off-white illustration board.

School of Contemporary Art Life Class, 1956/57

Richard Aberle Florsheim

A work made of oil on canvas.

Spring Rains, c. 1924

Victor Higgins

A work made of oil, enamel, metallic paint, fabric, synthetic polymer, tar, paper, thread, and gold leaf on fabric.

White (Bianco), 1952

Alberto Burri

A work made of sheet steel, brass, wire, and paint.

Streetcar, 1951

Alexander Calder

Tall red-brown mahogany clock with brass trim.

Tall Clock, 1912

George Grant Elmslie

Painting of a small stream in the middle of the woods. In the center of the painting, there is a small waterfall over a large boulder. Radiant beams of sunlight penetrate the thick forest of birch and other trees, and a small bird sings from a broken branch over the waterfall.

Mountain Brook, 1863

Albert Bierstadt

A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

Plate Three, from Long Live Fashion, Down with Art, 1919, published 1920

Max Ernst

A work made of bronze.

Mirror with "TLV" Pattern, Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE), about 1st century

A work made of leaded favrile glass.

Lilies (Corey Memorial Window), 1892–95

Louis Comfort Tiffany

A work made of wood, copper alloy, and pigment.

Female Face Mask (Ndoma), Late 19th or mid–20th century

Baule

A work made of wood engraving on cream japanese paper.

The Restaurant of the Great Art Exhibition: A symbiotic love for the arts and the cutlet, 1868, printed 1920

Etienne Carjat

A work made of wood, pigment, glass beads, cowrie shells, fabric, and thread.

Face Mask (Ngady Mwaash), Late 19th-mid 20th century

Kuba

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