Marcel Duchamp

Author(s)

• Ades, Dawn
• Cox, Neil
• Hopkins, David

Bibliographic Information

Marcel Duchamp

Dawn Ades, Neil Cox and David Hopkins

（World of art）

Thames and Hudson, c1999

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Thirty years of research have gone into this accessible text on a complex artist. Written with the enthusiastic support of Duchamp's widow, this is one of the most original and important books ever written on this enigmatic artist, and challenges received ideas, misunderstanding and misinformation.

Table of Contents

• Origins
• Catholicism and the symbolist inheritance
• passages
• dry art, "The Retinal Shudder" and the planning of The Large Glass
• The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)
• anti-art, Rose Selavy and surrealism
• the readymades and "life on credit"
• replicas, casts and the infra-thin
• etant donnes
• postscript - Duchamp after Duchamp.

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Details

• NCID: BA41634445
• ISBN:
  • 0500203229
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 224 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 759.4
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Artists -- France
  • LCSH : Art, Modern -- 20th century -- France
  • LCSH : Art, French
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00534869