These new influences on his life had made Duchamp become frustrated with the art at the time. On a trip he went on with a few friends, he saw various mechanical objects and felt that they were so much more pleasing than art at the time. He began to drift away from optically pleasing art and focused purely on intellectually stimulating art. Duchamp decided to avoid art for a little while, and got a job as a librarian. He used this as “a sort of excuse for not being obliged to show up socially” (Marcel Duchamp. Moure, Rizzoli. 1988). This enabled him to remove himself from society and remain within his own realm. He was intrigued with various theoretical writings, such as those by Henri Poincare. The culmination of his interests in physics and the surreal combined with his dislike of
These new influences on his life had made Duchamp become frustrated with the art at the time. On a trip he went on with a few friends, he saw various mechanical objects and felt that they were so much more pleasing than art at the time. He began to drift away from optically pleasing art and focused purely on intellectually stimulating art. Duchamp decided to avoid art for a little while, and got a job as a librarian. He used this as “a sort of excuse for not being obliged to show up socially” (Marcel Duchamp. Moure, Rizzoli. 1988). This enabled him to remove himself from society and remain within his own realm. He was intrigued with various theoretical writings, such as those by Henri Poincare. The culmination of his interests in physics and the surreal combined with his dislike of