Glorious Techniculture

1950–2010 · Působiště

Solingen

1957–1961

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

During these years he is very active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and produces a work parodying the Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell for rejecting a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.

1960

A typographic edition of Duchamp’s Green Box

The post at the ICA gives him time to deepen his research on Duchamp, which results in a typographic version of Duchamp’s Green Box, the original notes for the design and construction of “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even,” also known as “The Large Glass.”

1962

Death of his first wife Terry

His first wife Terry is killed in a car accident.

1963

First trip to the US: Duchamp in Pasadena

Partly to recover from his loss, he travels to the United States for the first time for a retrospective of Marcel Duchamp’s work at the Pasadena Art Museum, where he meets other leading pop artists and is befriended by Duchamp.

1966

The first British Duchamp retrospective

He curates the first British retrospective of Duchamp’s work; his familiarity with the Green Box enables him to make copies of “The Large Glass” and other glass works too fragile to travel. The exhibition is shown at the Tate Gallery.