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She shared a special relationship with Marcel Duchamp, whom along with Henri-Pierre Roche, founded <i>The Blind Man Magazine <\/i>in 1916 (central images). The magazine\u2019s second issue was devoted to the defense of&nbsp;R.Mutt\u2019s <i>Fountain,<\/i>&nbsp;Duchamp\u2019s controversial artwork submission of an ordinary men\u2019s urinal with the signature R.Mutt inscribed on its surface. Many deemed it \u201cvulgar\u201d and just a \u201cplain piece of plumbing,\u201d to which Wood responded:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>\u201cNow Mr. Mutt\u2019s fountain is not immoral, that is absurd, no more than a bath tub is immoral\u2026 As for plumbing, that is absurd. The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duchamp and Wood continued to remain close throughout the years. In 1955, he designed the cover for Wood\u2019s exhibition catalogue <i>Beatrice Wood: Ceramics<\/i>&nbsp;at The American Gallery, Los Angeles (pictured top: the catalogue and Duchamp\u2019s correspondence describing his particulars for the design).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also see a letter from Duchamp to Wood in 1963 (pictured bottom right), in which Duchamp invites her to visit him and his wife in Pasadena at the Green Hotel, during the time of his historic retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum (Norton Simon).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These objects are just a few of the materials in the exhibition&nbsp;<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/exhibition.cfm?tExhibition_id=1204\">A Marcel Duchamp Collection<\/a>, <\/i>on view at L.A. Louver&nbsp;through May 14, 2016. Visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/lalouver.com\/exhibition.cfm?tExhibition_id=1204\">website<\/a> to learn more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Picture of Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Beatrice Wood (1917) via <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beatrice_Wood\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed ceramic artist and&nbsp;\u201cMama of Dada,\u201d Beatrice Wood was born on this day in 1893. She shared a special relationship with Marcel Duchamp, whom along with Henri-Pierre Roche, founded The Blind Man Magazine in 1916 (central images). The magazine\u2019s second issue was devoted to the defense of&nbsp;R.Mutt\u2019s Fountain,&nbsp;Duchamp\u2019s controversial artwork submission of an ordinary men\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[200,149,202,15,173,201,203,204],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beatrice-wood","tag-collection","tag-dada","tag-l-a-louver","tag-marcel-duchamp","tag-pottery","tag-rmutt","tag-urinal","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Beatrice Wood was born on this day in 1893 - L.A. 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