INFRA-MINCE or a Secret Murmur

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  • Patricia Dias Franca-Huchet Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v2i2.7297

Keywords:

Infra-mince, notes, Marcel Duchamp, invisibility, experience

Abstract

This essay investigates the artist Marcel Duchamp's (1887-1968) Notes on the Infra-mince, written around 1935 and published after his death by Paul Matisse as Marcel Duchamp Notes, focusing on notes number 01, 06, 16, 02, 46 and 03 in that order. The Infra-mince recounts Duchamp's aesthetic notions in the form of a set of notes, evoking sensory aspects and involving perceptions regarding sensitivity, sensation, language and the complexity of word play. Duchamp, always starting from the imperceptible becoming into being of sensation, bequeathed us, with his Infra-mince notes, what I consider his greatest secret: This concept - Infra-mince - contains all the power of his work and induces us to think about its plastic, theoretical and even historical character. In the notes, we observe a confluence among play, the word, sensation and eroticism. Here, I emphasize the sensory experience as a means to perceive the labile and flexible character of these notes.

English version by Leslie Damasceno.

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Author Biography

Patricia Dias Franca-Huchet, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Patricia Franca-Huchet is a Full Professor (Professora Titular) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Universidade Federal Minas Gerais / UFMG) and Researcher at the Bureau of Studies on Image and Time [Belas Artes]. She holds a PhD from the Université de Paris I, Sorbonne and a Master's Degree from the Université de Paris VIII, as well as a Post-Doctorate from the Université de Paris III (Centre de Recherche en Esthétique du Cinéma et des Images / CRECI). She is a permanent member of the PPGArtes of EBA/UFMG, which she helped to found (1998-2015); Visiting professor at the Universidade de São Paulo [USP / ECA-CAP] from 1995 to 1997 invited by Walter Zanini and Julio Plaza; Visiting professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València.  She has exhibitions and publications in books and specialized journals in Brazil and abroad, having carried out research, exhibited and published in the Fondation Danäe/França. She divides her activities among teaching, research, artistic practice (photography, installations, objects, books), presentations of her work publications, curatorships and exhibits, participating in the 2015 Bienal de Lálin, Spain, with the work Os quatro fotógrafos [literature, image e photography]. She is a research fellow at IEAT/UFMG.

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25-09-2015

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FRANCA-HUCHET, P. D. INFRA-MINCE or a Secret Murmur. Art Research Journal: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes, [S. l.], v. 2, n. 2, p. 40–59, 2015. DOI: 10.36025/arj.v2i2.7297. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/article/view/7297. Acesso em: 22 jul. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2015): Confluências/Confluences

Section

Part 1 – Art in the World – Possible Connections

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