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Cornelia Parker

Chooses the photograph Dust Breeding by Man Ray

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Works include Cold Dark Matter - an exploded shed - and The Maybe, for which Tilda Swinton lay asleep in a glass box. Cold Dark Matter will be on display on billboards around the country as part of Art Everyone.

Dust Breeding by Man Ray

Cornelia Parker chooses a 1920 photograph by Man Ray called Dust Breeding, which captures the accumulation of dust on Marcel Duchamp's artwork The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass). 

Image: Man Ray, Dust Breeding (Elevage de poussiere) (1920-64).

© The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel / Vera & Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art / The Bridgeman Art Library

From the Archive

Man Ray

Man Ray on his obsession with inanimate objects.

From Review 24 Mar 1972 on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, courtesy of Library of Congress.

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp on Cubism and his work The Bride Stipped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.

From Art - Anti-Art 13 Nov 1959 on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Service

Edouard L Mesens

Poet and composer Edouard Mesens on his friendship with the then little-known Man Ray, Duchamp and Francis Picabia.

From Edouard L Mesens: Strange Encounter In The Third Programme 24 Feb 1970 on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Third Programme

Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker on squashing 60 brass-band instruments and suspending them in a circle.

Image courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London

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