{"id":137,"date":"2007-03-01T21:42:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T21:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/contemporaryartetc.com\/2007\/03\/01\/fact-of-the-day-18\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T21:42:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T21:42:38","slug":"fact-of-the-day-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/fact-of-the-day-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Art e-Facts 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This photograph of <strong>Marcel Duchamp<\/strong>, taken by Man Ray in 1921, shows Marcel Duchamp in the role of Rrose Selavy, the artists female alter ego. To introduce Selavy to the public this femme savante (intellectual woman) was photographed by Man Ray as a form of birth certificate of the \u2018daughter without mother\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in full regalia of furs, rings, pearls and hat and photographed against a neutral background, appearing as a women of high society and apparently questionable morals Duchamp emphasised the ambiguity and clouding of sexual boundaries. To add to the femininity of the portrait Ray and Duchamp touched up the photo with pencil and ink. The name of the female alter ego is also a cryptic comment \u2013 the French pronunciation can also be interpreted as \u2018Eros, c\u2019est la vie \u2013 Eros, that\u2019s life\u2019 Duchamp believed in the universal understanding of eroticism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtesy: D. McLachlan <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photograph of Marcel Duchamp, taken by Man Ray in 1921, shows Marcel Duchamp in the role of Rrose Selavy, the artists female alter ego. To introduce Selavy to the public this femme savante (intellectual woman) was photographed by Man Ray as a form of birth certificate of the \u2018daughter without mother\u2019. Dressed in full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[344],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-e-facts","tag-marcel-duchamp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}