TREE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE

TREE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE, 2010. This work was created and placed in the grounds of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, in Amherst, Virginia, USA. This work is named after Nude Descending a Staircase,  a 1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp. The work is widely regarded as a Modernist classic and has become one of the most famous of its time. In its first presentation at the Parisian Salon des Indépendants, it was rejected by the Cubists and caused a huge stir during its exhibition at the 1913 Armory Show in New York following a press copy of an abuse scandal. This work is named after Nude Descending a Staircase,  a 1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp. The work is widely regarded as a Modernist classic and has become one of the most famous of its time. In its first presentation at the Parisian Salon des Indépendants, it was rejected by the Cubists and caused a huge stir during its exhibition at the 1913 Armory Show in New York following a press copy of an abuse scandal.