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August 8, 2014

In art there are numerous recurring themes that have become neo-archetypes. One of the most intriguing is the Nude Descending Staircase. In 1912, inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic motion studies, Marcel Duchamp created “Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2”. On a weekly basis, from 2008 till the end of 2012, Faiyaz Jafri published images for NDS, a graphic novel inspired by Duchamp’s piece, incorporating other neo-archetypes.

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