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Flaubert Descending a Staircase

Flaubert Descending a Staircase

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Lee van Laer
Mar 19, 2023
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“Don’t throw the little dog down the stairs, Pablo.”

—From the E-Hound Karaoke (DOGen’s Expensive Record.)

Photo: the famous painting of me by Marcel Duchamp, Flaubert Descending a Staircase.

You might think this is a painting in the general stylistic vein of Cubist Artificial Dog (CAD) because it’s so out there, but it was actually done in the early 1900s…

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