Rrose Sélavy

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Rrose Sélavy is the female alter ego and artistic pseudonym of Marcel Duchamp, used in his Dada and Surrealist works to explore identity, gender, and wordplay.

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Rrose Selavy 1
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Predicate Object
instanceOf artistic persona
female alter ego
fictional character
pseudonym
activePeriod 1920s
1930s
alsoKnownAs Rose Sélavy
Rrose Sélavy
surface form: Rrose Selavy
associatedWith André Breton
Man Ray
Surrealist Group in New York
surface form: New York Dada

Surrealist Group in Paris
surface form: Parisian Surrealism
countryOfOrigin France
creator Marcel Duchamp
depictedAs Marcel Duchamp dressed in women’s clothing
depictedIn photographic portraits by Man Ray
fieldOfWork avant-garde art
experimental literature
genre conceptual art
hasCreatorGender male
hasGenderPresentation female
influenced later feminist art
performance art involving drag
queer theory discussions of Duchamp
languageOfName French
medium photography
readymades
text
movement Dada
Surrealism
nameMeaning pun on “Eros, c’est la vie”
notableFor exploration of gender identity
exploration of sexual ambiguity
photographic portraits in drag
use of wordplay and puns
notableQuoteAttribution series of French puns and aphorisms published under the name Rrose Sélavy
partOf Marcel Duchamp’s overall artistic strategy
realNameOfCreator Marcel Duchamp
surface form: Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp
roleInWork author of aphorisms and puns
signature on various Duchamp readymades
theme eroticism
linguistic play
questioning fixed identity
subversion of gender norms
usedInWork Anemic Cinema (as author of some puns)
Belle Haleine: Eau de Voilette
L.H.O.O.Q.
surface form: L.H.O.O.Q. (as signature in some versions)

Why Not Sneeze, Rrose Sélavy?

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Marcel Duchamp usedPseudonym Rrose Sélavy
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp signature Rrose Sélavy
subject surface form: Fountain
this entity surface form: R. Mutt
Rrose Sélavy alsoKnownAs Rrose Sélavy
this entity surface form: Rrose Selavy