This is a lecture I give every year to first year honors students at UMaine.

1. Modernism, Amodernism and Marcel Duchamp, or why is a urinal no longer just a plumbing fixture? Owen F. Smith

2. Two forms of Modernism

3. Modernism as a Tradition four primary elements 1. reduction to essential properties

4. 2. move towards abstraction

5. 3. intensification of personal expression

6. 4. recognition of intrinsic value in art

7. Modernism as an evolutionary condition

8. High Modernism and Amodernism

13. DADA 1914-1924

15. Marcel Duchamp

22. SINCE THE TUBES OF PAINT USED BY AN ARTIST ARE MANUFACTURED AND READY-MADE PRODUCTS WE MUST CONCLUDE THAT ALL THE PAINTINGS IN THE WORLD ARE "READY-MADES AIDED" AND ALSO WORKS OF ASSEMBLAGE - M.D.

27. Fin (or, just the beginning . . . .)

28. Paul Neufeld Text