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NCAR Symposium 004 / Tama Art University Art Archives Symposium 7 Replicas and more: Marcel Duchamp The Large Glass—Stockholm, London, Tokyo, and Paris
Tama Art University Hachioji Campus
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The National Center for Art Research, Japan (abbreviation: NCAR; director: Kataoka Mami) has partnered with Tama ArtUniversity Art Archives Center (AAC; director: Mitsuda Yuri) to hold the International Symposium “Replicas and more: MarcelDuchamp The Large Glass—Stockholm, London, Tokyo, and Paris” on March 1, 2025, at Tama Art University’s Hachiojicampus.
With his iconic work Fountain, a signed ready-made urinal, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) radically challenged the notion of “art.” One of his masterpieces, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even, also known as The Large Glass (1915–1923, Philadelphia Museum of Art), is an unfinished work that took eight years to create, leaving plenty of room for interpretation and controversies to this day.
Because of the difficulty of transportation, three replicas have been created to date for exhibition opportunities. The Large Glass – Tokyo Version (LGTV) (1980, Collection of Komaba Museum, University of Tokyo) is the only replica in Asia. After Duchamp’s death, the creation of LGTV was led by Takiguchi Shuzo, who had maintained a friendship with Duchamp, and Tono Yoshiaki, then a professor at Tama Art University, with students from the University of Tokyo and Tama Art University serving as fabricators.
Against this background, Tama Art University has preserved a collection of preparatory studies of LGTV produced by students, which have been announced for official archiving at the AAC, along with a set of materials related to Duchamp, this year. This was made possible with the approval of the copyright owner, the Marcel Duchamp Association, which manages Duchamp’s estate and promotes his works worldwide.
To commemorate the archiving of preparatory studies, the first international symposium on the replicas of The Large Glass and related materials. This symposium will offer an opportunity for curators and researchers at institutions that hold replicas of The Large Glass to gather from Europe and Japan.
At this symposium, we will share insights on each replica’s unique characteristics, conservation condition in different museum environments, the use and maintenance of archival materials related to each replica, and how to effectively use the replica archives in the future.
With his iconic work Fountain, a signed ready-made urinal, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) radically challenged the notion of “art.” One of his masterpieces, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even, also known as The Large Glass (1915–1923, Philadelphia Museum of Art), is an unfinished work that took eight years to create, leaving plenty of room for interpretation and controversies to this day.
Because of the difficulty of transportation, three replicas have been created to date for exhibition opportunities. The Large Glass – Tokyo Version (LGTV) (1980, Collection of Komaba Museum, University of Tokyo) is the only replica in Asia. After Duchamp’s death, the creation of LGTV was led by Takiguchi Shuzo, who had maintained a friendship with Duchamp, and Tono Yoshiaki, then a professor at Tama Art University, with students from the University of Tokyo and Tama Art University serving as fabricators.
Against this background, Tama Art University has preserved a collection of preparatory studies of LGTV produced by students, which have been announced for official archiving at the AAC, along with a set of materials related to Duchamp, this year. This was made possible with the approval of the copyright owner, the Marcel Duchamp Association, which manages Duchamp’s estate and promotes his works worldwide.
To commemorate the archiving of preparatory studies, the first international symposium on the replicas of The Large Glass and related materials. This symposium will offer an opportunity for curators and researchers at institutions that hold replicas of The Large Glass to gather from Europe and Japan.
At this symposium, we will share insights on each replica’s unique characteristics, conservation condition in different museum environments, the use and maintenance of archival materials related to each replica, and how to effectively use the replica archives in the future.
Schedule | Mar 1 (Sat) 2025 Reservation RequiredOpening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://ncar.artmuseums.go.jp/en/events/globalcommunications/post2024-1899.html | ||||
| Venue | Tama Art University Hachioji Campus https://www.tamabi.ac.jp/ | ||||
| Location | 2-1723 Yarimizu, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0394 | ||||
| Access | From the North exit of Hashimoto Station on the JR Yokohama or Keio Sagamihara line, take the Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu bus and get off at Tama Bijutsu Daigaku. The venue is 1 minute walk from there. | ||||
| Phone | 042-676-8611 | ||||
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