Duchamp, The Fountain, 1917 /// Lady Gaga's The Armitage, Inside/Out Gallery 2010
While Vogue.co.uk is saying that Gaga's piece "is thought to be a playful acknowledgement of Duchamp's enduring influence," I feel that the work is completely unoriginal and pretentious of her. Duchamp's fountain is one of those works that shouldn't be copied or reproduced because of its past monumentality. It's importance and influence at the time of its creation has been too influential on art to be paid homage in such a literal sense. If one wants to pay homage to the great Duchamp then be original, something Lady Gaga certainly has in her.
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