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The machine that makes gossip: Andy Warhol’s ‘Screen Test’ of Marcel Duchamp

dc.creatorAhern, Mal
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-12T09:33:16Z
dc.date.available2022-07-12T09:33:16Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis essay positions Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests alongside a range of rumors about their production. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and photographic documentation, I reconstruct the proliferation of gossip surrounding the 1966 shoot of Marcel Duchamp. The rumors that circulated about this event – namely, that Warhol persuaded a young woman to caress Duchamp flirtatiously just out of frame – eventually made it into the ‘official’ historical record, appearing in popular biography and museum exhibition texts. Rather than asserting what truly happened during the making of this film, my analysis instead focuses on the reasons this rumor seemed credible. The minimal form of the Screen Tests, along with the casual terms of production and exhibition in Warhol’s Factory studio, encouraged the proliferation of unverifiable discourse about them. Using the Duchamp film as an example, I argue that we can view the Screen Tests as a body of work that generates and sustains gossip.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18838
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/the-machine-that-makes-gossip-andy-warhols-screen-test-of-marcel-duchamp/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/19988
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNECS
dc.publisher.place
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectclose-upen
dc.subjectqueer avant-gardeen
dc.subjectart historyen
dc.subjectexperimental filmen
dc.subjectproduction historyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleThe machine that makes gossip: Andy Warhol’s ‘Screen Test’ of Marcel Duchampen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2022-07-12T12:22:17
local.source.epage110
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitle#Rumors
local.source.spage88
local.source.volume11

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