Marcel Duchamp
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Bibliographic Information
Marcel Duchamp
(World of art)
Thames and Hudson, c1999
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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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