![]() Meaning that in the nineteenth century a urinal could only say-if it could say anything-“I’m a urinal.” But after Marcel, a urinal could also say, “I look like a urinal, but Marcel says I’m art.” Jim Morrison Wasn't Cool, Said Eve Babitz ![]() His great contribution to art was elsewhere.” But not just stuff you decorate walls with. The irony is, Duchamp did so many beautiful things. ![]() “One way to look at it-these things are never set in granite-is that Picasso and Matisse fulfilled the dream of the nineteenth century, and the two artists who hold the really extreme positions unique to our time are Duchamp and Mondrian. Walter was the One, when it came to all this-long ago, when hardly anyone knew-who knew. “His position was extraordinary,” my wonderful friend Walter Hopps informed me. You can find every Esquire story ever published at Esquire Classic. It was reprinted in the April 2018 issue. This article originally appeared in the September 1991 issue of Esquire. Here, she recalls the story behind their encounter, which changed her life and her city forever. Babitz was just beginning her career as a cultural provocateur. Duchamp had by then semiretired from art to play chess. California’s surreal 1960s truly began one Los Angeles morning in '63, when pioneering dadaist Marcel Duchamp met stark naked Eve Babitz.
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