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'''"The Creative Act'''" is the informal title to a speech on the [[concept of creativity]] given in April 5, 1957 [[Marcel Duchamp]] in Houston, Texas on the occasion of the Convention of the [[American Federation of Arts]].
The speech was later published in ''[[Writings of Marcel Duchamp]]''.
:"The [[creative]] act is not performed by the artist alone; the [[spectator]] brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."
The essay cites [[T.S. Eliot]]'s ''[[Tradition and Individual Talent]]'': ‘The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates; the more perfectly will the mind digest and transmute the passions which are its material.’
==Recording==
A recording of Duchamp's speech was made and inserted as a [[flexi-disc]] in [[Aspen (magazine)|Aspen]] (New York), nos. 5-6, 1967. Today, the recording is made available through Belgian label [[Sub Rosa (label)|Sub Rosa]].
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'''"The Creative Act'''" is the informal title to a speech on the [[concept of creativity]] given in April 5, 1957 [[Marcel Duchamp]] in Houston, Texas on the occasion of the Convention of the [[American Federation of Arts]].
The speech was later published in ''[[Writings of Marcel Duchamp]]''.
:"The [[creative]] act is not performed by the artist alone; the [[spectator]] brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."
The essay cites [[T.S. Eliot]]'s ''[[Tradition and Individual Talent]]'': ‘The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates; the more perfectly will the mind digest and transmute the passions which are its material.’
==Recording==
A recording of Duchamp's speech was made and inserted as a [[flexi-disc]] in [[Aspen (magazine)|Aspen]] (New York), nos. 5-6, 1967. Today, the recording is made available through Belgian label [[Sub Rosa (label)|Sub Rosa]].
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