Originally published at: Janet Sobel was a Ukrainian artist who dripped paint before Jackson Pollock | Boing Boing
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Pollock is a person whom the more I know about, the more I dislike. I’ve seen a number of his works in person and never once been moved. In fact, they looked more like the garage-floor drop cloth trash that they really were in person. Of course he was lauded for poorly ripping off a woman’s prior work.
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In related news, Duchamp’s famous “Fountain” was almost certainly the work of artist Elsa Von Freytag.
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Your theory has provoked many an indignant letter.
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I’ve read through the arguments on both sides of that debate (most of which are linked from the letter you shared, and can be found here: MARCEL DUCHAMP WAS NOT A THIEF – Atlas Press ).
As Ades writes on that site " We leave it to readers to decide if Gammel and Spalding and Thompson have answered our challenge to their different allegations." As it stands, I find the evidence in favor of Von Freytag more compelling.
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when the whole of the work seems to be contained in the originality of the work, the artists reputation can be deflated so easily.
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