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.
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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 BBC 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 BBC Home 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 BBC Third Programme
Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker on squashing 60 brass-band instruments and suspending them in a circle.
From Front Row 18 Jun 2010 on Radio 4
Image courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London
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