The Worlds Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good strong stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave an untiring steel Negro controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources.
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In one sense Duchamps The Large Glass is a glimpse into Hell a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.
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What does one prefer An art that struggles to change the social contract but fails Or one that seeks to please and amuse and succeeds
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