Chocolate Grinder (No. 1)

~Duchamp, Apollinaire, and Picabia left Paris for Jura about October 20, ten days after the opening of the Salon de “La Section d’Or,” the major independent exhibition of the Puteaux Cubists and a culmination of the group’s activities. On September 2, 1912, Gil Bias had announced that Marcel Duchamp would submit a painting entitled Section d’Or. The works shown, however, were Portrait of Chess Players (fig. 15), Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) (fig. 12), The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes (pl. 2), Duchamp’s watercolor and gouache study for the Swift Nudes painting (fig. 24), as well as two works listed simply as Peinture and...

~Sperm, water, ink, paint, perfumed dye: the pharmakon always penetrates like a liquid; it is absorbed, drunk, introduced into the inside, which it first marks with the hardness of the type, soon to invade it and inundate it with its medicine, its brew, its drink, its potion, its poison.