Peggy Guggenheim Collection shows Marcel Duchamp – Culture

In Paris in 1937 there was a highly desirable encounter in terms of art history and even more so in terms of art mythology: the exile Walter Benjamin, who has a humble position in the budget of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and who desperately wants to save the aura of art in the age of technical reproducibility, meets Marcel Duchamp , who has long since ceased to be interested in art as art and who thinks nothing of marrying an aesthetically deficient heiress. Or as source Peggy Guggenheim expertly said: “His vice was ugly lovers.”