Wittgenstein Plays Chess with Marcel Duchamp
Marjorie Perloff -Marcel Duchamp & Wittgenstein (From Tablet)
At 90, the poetry critic Marjorie Perloff doesn’t want to analyze verse. She wants to discuss Wittgenstein and Duchamp
(Marjolie Perloff on Wittgenstein and Marcel Duchamp)
Marjorie: They did have a lot in common. They were almost exact contemporaries, you know—only two years apart. Duchamp was born in 1887, and Wittgenstein was born in 1889. And they both had training in engineering and mathematics. They made equations. There’s Duchamp’s Three Standard Stoppages. That is the key work. I really do think so.