Originally spoken at the Convention of the American Federation of Arts in Houston, Texas, April of 1957. This is a reading of a short text Duchamp wrote titled The Creative Act. 

Some time later Aspen Magazine recorded Duchamp reading the text. This recording is now available as part of a compilation of audio based Duchamp readings and interviews. 

The text, found in Robert Lebel’s 1959 tome Marcel Duchamp (public library) is linked here: http://ds1416.risd.gd/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/TheCreativeAct_MarcelDuchamp.pdf

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The Creative Act Marcel Duchamp

Via BBC Archives 

The inaugural Reith Lecturer is the philosopher, mathematician, and social reformer Bertrand Russell. One of the founders of analytic philosophy and a Nobel Laureate, he is the author of Principia Mathematica, and the bestselling History of Western Philosophy, written in 1946. His Reith lecture series is entitled 'Authority and the Individual'.

In his third lecture, entitled 'The Role of Individuality', he considers the importance of individual initiative to a community, and argues for flexibility, local autonomy, and less centralisation in society. Modern organisations, he says, must be more flexible and less oppressive to the human spirit if life is to be saved from boredom.

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