SYNTHESIS 3D: Artist Multiples October 27, 2012

Many consider Marcel Duchamp to be the originator of the modern multiple. As early as 1913, this now-famous French artist/provocateur deftly demonstrated how everyday objects could become art simply by negating their original function or context. Though widely ridiculed at the time, Duchamp's "readymades," as he called them, were in effect conceptual prototypes for those artists of the European and American avant-garde, who in the late 1950s and early '60s began to experiment with creating three-dimensional art objects that could be replicated and issued as limited editions. Selected from the MIA's permanent collection and several private collections, the exhibition features more than 40 artist multiples from the 1960s to the present, including examples by Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha and many more.