Marcel Duchamp /

"Genius, anti-artist, charlatan, guru, impostor? Since 1914 Marcel Duchamp has been called all these. No artist of the twentieth century has aroused more passion and controversy, nor exerted a greater influence on art, whose very nature Duchamp challenged and redefined as concept rather than pr...

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Author / Contributor: Ades, Dawn
Other authors / contributors: Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968, Cox, Neil, Hopkins, David, 1955-
Imprint: New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1999.
Format: Book
Language:English
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Acquisition Notes:Purchased with the Gertrud A. White Memorial Fund
Series:World of art.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Origins
  • ch. 2. Catholicism and the symbolist inheritance
  • ch. 3. Passages
  • ch. 4. Dry art, 'The Retinal Shudder' and the planning of the large glass
  • ch. 5. The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even (the Large Glass)
  • ch. 6. Anti-art, Rrose Sélavy and surrealism
  • ch. 7. The readymades and 'Life on Credit'
  • ch. 8. Replicas, casts and the infra-thin
  • ch. 9. Etant donnés
  • Postscript. Duchamp after Duchamp.