Hartley and Duchamp On Background

Marsden Hartley, The Warriors, aka No Title #68, aka Warriors, aka Pt-0159, 1914, 47 1/2 x 47 1/4 in., oil on canvas, photographed for the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project by Joshua Nefsky Speaking of Marcel Duchamp, it’s always wild to me that the Alfred Stieglitz photo Marcel Duchamp used to introduce Fountain to the world set the urinal against Marsden Hartley’s 1914 German-era painting, [The] Warriors. Alfred Stieglitz, Fountain by R. Mutt, The Blind Man, May 1917, via Wikipedia/The Met What Richard Schiff wrote about that Jasper Johns ink drawing of Flag on Orange Field applies here, too: “It need not be orange anymore than a monochromatic photograph of a rainbow need be multicolored. The medium determines how the qualities of a work appear.” But seeing things in color sure does change things. I got kind of annoyed by the end of the podcast and am not going back, but I think Helen Molesworth was talking about how Duchamp’s Fountain was an image before it was an object. Now I wonder…