When I was fifteen I can remember that a television programme called Aquarius caused a stir when it showed a scene from British Sounds by Jean Luc Godard in which a naked woman both ascends and descends a staircase in rather plain house.<\/p>\n
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Little was left to the imagination and the woman\u2019s pubic bush was clearly seen which to a fifteen-year old in the late 1960s was something quite different especially on television<\/p>\n
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Although I had seen women naked before there was always something ordered about their nudity in whatever environment it occurred<\/p>\n
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For some reason this short clip cemented itself into my subconscious and I often recall it when I visit houses with similar staircases<\/p>\n
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I have copy of Marcel Duchamp\u2019s 1912 painting Nude Descending a Staircase No 2 on the landing above my main staircase<\/p>\n
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But the effect although pleasurable is not the same due to the geography of my house<\/p>\n
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I have however noticed that it is rare that either members of my family or guests ever stop on the short landing where the painting is hung<\/p>\n
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This in part I contribute to the motion of the painting<\/p>\n
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I also have a short recording of Edward Muybridge\u2019s Woman Walking Downstairs which was created in 1887 in my collection<\/p>\n
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Like in the Godard movie the model\/actress is totally naked although nearly eighty years separate these images<\/p>\n
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This work inspired Duchamp who in turn inspired Godard but in turn it has yet to inspire me and I believe that this short collection of rather meaningless words is all that I am ever likely to write on the subject<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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