Practice question · True or false
Duchamp argued that the spectator completes the work, and called the gap between what was intended and what was expressed the art coefficient.
Hints
- The lecture was given in Houston in 1957.
- The coefficient is a relation between two terms that never coincide.
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True
Why
True, and it is a description rather than a complaint. The artist supplies one term and cannot see the other, so the work is finished by people who were not in the studio. That is the condition of showing anything at all rather than a defect to be engineered away.
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