Duchampian Sliding Screens Salesman Sample (or Moire Pattern Making Machine) 1940s shuttlecocks ebonized wood backs

ebonized wood backs

Of course it makes me think of Duchamp’s Rotoreliefs (Optical Discs) and Anemic Cinema - the best

they are traditionally used in initiations of young monks or during ceremonies as a visualization aid to invoke a deity or divinity or simply as a representation of the object of the offering ritual

Stamped ''EWA'' and "Made in'Vienna

3 13/16" in diameter x 3 1/16" tall

Duchampian Sliding Screens Salesman Sample (or Moire Pattern Making Machine) 1940s shuttlecocks ebonized wood backsAnother example of a thing made for one purpose, but which, recontextualized, feels quite like an artwork, this one feeling very Duchampian to me, including for his ongoing interest in thresholds and portals (doors, windows, peepholes, glass, etc..) I believe it was made as a salesman sample for sliding screens, here with three screens, each with handles for sliding them in one direction or the other. They can all be slid, one by one, to one side or