Prince Charming Don’t Come In Vain

Esra Özdoğan

To Elif

Old Loyalties
The short list of words that one feels one must resort to, but I will nevertheless try to refrain from using: Multifaceted, of a

Having penetrated the Balkans in the fourteenth century, conquered Constantinople in the fifteenth, and reached the gates of Vienna in the sixteenth, the Ottoman Empire long struck fear into European hearts. 

In 1998 Ben Jakober and Yannick Vu collaborated on an obvious remake of Marcel Duchamp’s Roue de Bicyclette, his first “readymade” object. Duchamp combined a bicycle wheel, a fork and a stool to create a machine which served no purpose, subverting accepted norms of art.