SCIENCE Friday, November 26, 1999 | ||
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Duchamp and Poincaré Renew an Old Acquaintance by Barry Cipra |
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One of Duchamp's more playful ready-mades, a postcard reproduction
of the Mona Lisa on which he drew a beard and mustache, is titled
LHOOQ: Pronounced aloud in French, the letters sound like the
sentence "She has a hot ass."
Far from simply anointing
an existing postcard, Shearer thinks, Duchamp created his own and
even substituted his own face in the enigmatic portrait! She
and NYU's Brandt have compared measurements of facial features on
LHOOQ with those on other reproductions; their analysis exposes
the Duchamp Lisa as a solid outlier. CONTINUED>>
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