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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/430/437-19.jpg
Title	L.H.O.O.Q., replica, from "Boite-en-Valise, image only.
Creator	Duchamp, Marcel (French painter, sculptor, and writer, 1887-1968) Leonardo da Vinci (Italian painter, draftsman, scientist, 1452-1519)
Date	1919
Cultural Context	French European Western European
Style/Period	Dada Modern (styles and periods) Modernist
Theme	Ready-mades Found objects Reproductions Replicas Copies (derivative objects) Paintings (visual works) Oil paintings (visual works) Panel paintings (painting by form) Avant-garde Figurative art Figures (representations) Half figures Front views Three-quarter views Oblique views Portraits Women Costume (mode of fashion) Drapery (representations) Hairstyles Veils (headcloths) Headcloths (headgear) Headgear Landscapes (representations) Ambiguity Sexuality Homosexuality Chiaroscuro Atmospheric perspective Sfumato Language (verbal communication) Linguistics Words Handwriting Signatures (names)
Subject	Reproductions Paintings Oil paintings Portrait paintings Portraits Women Clothing & dress Hairstyles Beards Mustaches Veils Headgear Posing Smiling Landscapes (Representations) Puns (Visual works) Language Artists' signatures
Description	Replica of L.H.O.O.Q., Paris, 1919, from "Boite-en-Valise." Color reproduction of the Mona Lisa altered with a pencil. "The most famous instance of visual and verbal punning in Duchamp's work is L.H.O.O.Q., whose title is a bilingual pun. Read phonetically in English, the title sounds like 'LOOK,' which, on one level, is the artist's command to the viewer. If each letter is pronounced according to its individual sound in French, the title reads 'Elle (L) a ch (H) aud (O) au (O) cul (Q),' meaning in English 'She has a hot ass.' Read backward, on the other hand, 'LOOK' spells 'KOOL,' which counters the forward message. When viewers do, in fact, look, they see that Duchamp has penciled a beard and mustache onto a reproduction of Leonardo's Mona Lisa, turning her into a bearded lady. One might ask whether Duchamp has 'defaced' the Mona Lisa or merely 'touched her up.' This question plays with the sometimes fine line between creation and destruction. […] Duchamp called the kind of work exemplified by L.H.O.O.Q. a 'Ready-made-Aided.' [...] [T]he connection with the past is obvious, for the work reproduces a classic icon. It comments on Leonardo's homosexuality and on the sexual ambiguity of the Mona Lisa herself. It also reflects Duchamp's interest in creating his own alter ego as a woman, whom he named Rrose Selavy, a pun on 'c'est la vie,' meaning 'that's life'."
People Pictured	Mona Lisa, b. 1479 Del Giocondo, Lisa, b. 1479 Gherardini, Lisa, b. 1479
Material	Pencils (drawing and writing equipment) Reproductions Copies (derivative objects) Found objects
Measurements	7 3/4 x 5 in (19.7 x 12.7 cm)
Technique	Drawing (image-making) Copying Chiaroscuro Sfumato
Inscription	Bottom left: Paris; Bottom right: Duchamp's signature
Work Type	Ready-mades Reproductions Copies (derivative objects)
Repository	Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Source	Adams, Laurie Schneider. Art Across Time. 2nd ed. 2 vols. New York: McGraw, 2002. (p.[915], 26.1).
Rights	Reproduced in Adams courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art, Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection/ © 2001 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/Estate of Marcel Duchamp.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 437-19.jpg
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