The Spatial Duality of Form

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This paper explains that Marcel Duchamp saw sculpture as a self-contained object that packages its own space and ideas, whereas Kurt Schwitters, in direct contrast to Duchamp's view, saw sculpture as the relationships of the parts to the whole actively which serve to create the space and idea. The paper then proposes that, in fact, sculpture has the ability to express Duchamp's and Schwitter's opposing ideas simultaneously, and to become a multidimensional spatial experience.

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"At the same time, Marcel Duchamp was introducing the ready-made object. His inverted urinal, among other objects, significantly impacted our thinking of sculpture as well. At the other end of the spectrum from Schwitters, Duchamp glorified, to the point of fetishizing , the objectness of sculpture. By opposite means, he too questioned the meaning of spatial experience."

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