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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Surreal aroma's. (Re)constructing the volatile heritage of Marcel Duchamp
Contributor:
Verbeek, Caro
Published:
Radboud University, 2016
Published in:
RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 10 (2016) 1, Seite 133-142
Language:
Not determined
DOI:
10.18352/relief.929
ISSN:
1873-5045
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
No ‘visual’ artist addressed the sense of smell as often as Marcel Duchamp did. Whereas his solid objects can still be studied visually and textually, the scents he used have by now evaporated, and a vocabulary to describe them is lacking until today. What we have left are nose witness reports and the possibility to smell olfactory reconstructions. Rereading canonical text with a more sensory gaze and inhaling these historical fragrances, such as cedar, erotic perfumes and coffee, will enable us to reconstruct the olfactory dimension of our highly ocularcentric history of art.