This seemed to destroy any notions of being Goethe's and Thomas Mann's 'kulturnation' of thinkers and poets".
A small re-creation of his "Large Glass" (1915-23) — also titled "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" — presides as an icon for renegade urges to complicate, if not to destroy, conventional notions of what art is and is not.
My job was to anchor midfield, to deny Liverpool time and space, to break up their rhythm, basically to destroy any notions they might have had about passing us to defeat.
We must challenge, deconstruct and destroy any notions we have of the "other".
The fort must be comprised of at least one object from every other room in the house, destroy any notions you had of desirable décor, and impede adults from safe passage from one room to another.
Thanks to his performance in the 1936 Olympics, Jesse Owens helped destroy the notion of Aryan supremacy.
By selecting mass-produced, commonplace objects, Duchamp attempted to destroy the notion of the uniqueness of the art object.
He pre-empted this by institutionalising private sector methods and dumbing down the BBC so effectively as to destroy any notion of diversity within British television.
"When you have categories of gifts and sort of go to the vending machine to push the right button, you destroy the notion of singularizing the gift," he said.
There are tomato salad with fresh salt cod; Jabugo ham; sliced confited tuna belly; and an extraordinarily creamy cheese (torta Cañarejal) that will destroy any notion of Spain being anything less than the equal of France.
