Conceptual Approach to Readymades - “My Staff Understands Me”

Marcel Duchamp - In Advance of the Broken Arm. Marcel Duchamp, 1916

Jerrold Seigel . “Five— Private Worlds Made Public: The Readymades” 1995

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Preferred Citation: Seigel, Jerrold. The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9h4nb688/

William Shakespeare. “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” Scene V.

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Speed. Why then, how stands the matter with them?

Launce. Marry, thus: when it stands well with him, it stands well with her.

Speed. What an ass art thou! I understand thee not.

Launce. What a block art thou, that thou canst not! My staff understands me.

Speed. What thou sayest?

Launce. Ay, and what I do too: look thee, I’ll but lean, and my staff understands me.

Speed. It stands under thee, indeed.

Launce. Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.

Joseph Beuys - Langhaus (Vitrine). vitrine with block of wood, walking stick, felt and oil paint

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