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Marcel Duchamp (Art)

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"Marcel Duchamp has changed the history of modern art. His impact on the 20th century is rivaled only by that of Picasso and Matisse...." "Nude Descending a Staircase," "The Bride Stipped Bare by Her Bachelors," and the Readymades are landmarks in the art of our century, but reference to them only begins to suggest the scope of DuChamp's oeuvre...."

This book contains
- a documented photographic survey of Duchamp's works (over 90 pp)
- 10 original essays by scholars and critics
- passages from DuChamp's prose
- comments from contemporaries
- documentary illustrations
- a DuChamp chronology (over 20 pp)
- bibliography (10 pp)

My favorites among the essays are Tancock's "The Influence of Marcel Duchamp" and Lucy Lippard's collation "The Romantic Adventures of an Adversative Rotarian or Allreadymadsomuchoff."

Hardback in cloth-covered boards with a sewn binding; large format; with dustjacket; 334 pp and over 300 illustrations, mostly black and white.

I was happy to find this book in a used book store. Duchamp books are relatively hard to find, and some of the best ones are very expensive. I scanned the table of contents and the back cover so you can see what is here. It is a good sized 8.4 x 11 inch paperback filled with illustrations and important essays. I think of it as a very good addition to my art library and to my Duchamp collection in particular. Worth the low prices offered on Amazon!