Best known for cheeky conceptual works—like his signed urinals ("R. Mutt") and his graffitioed Mona Lisa—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) was also an extraordinary painter and sculptor (Nude Descending a Staircase) who changed the language of twentieth-century art and reigns with Picasso and Matisse as one of its greatest influences. Joseph Masheck has compiled a sampler of the best writing on Duchamp, with pieces that include Duchamp's obituary from Artforum, written by Jasper Johns; Octavio Paz on the ready-mades; a Duchamp post-mortem by Hans Richter; Donald Judd's investigation of Rrose Sélavy; a "Counter-Avant-Garde" by Clement Greenberg; a consideration by Guillaume Apollinaire; and John Cage's "26 Statements on Marcel Duchamp." Illustrated with photographs of Duchamp's seminal pieces, and updated with a substantial preface that offers new scholarship as well as a fascinating consideration of why Duchamp's popularity has exponentially increased since this book first appeared, this is an essential volume for the Duchamp devotee.
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Joseph Masheck has served as editor-in-chief of Artforum, contributing editor of Art in America, and as a professor of art history at Barnard, Harvard, and Hofstra. An artist himself, and the author of many books (among them Van Gogh 100, Building-Art, and Modernities), he lives in New York City.
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Marcel Duchamp's pictures are still too few in number, and differ too much from one another, for one to generalize their qualities, or judge the real talents of their creator. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conceptual theater, swift nudes, par ses célibataires, chocolate grinder, nude descending, bottle rack, cet astre Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marcel Duchamp, New York, Etant Donnés, Philadelphia Museum, The Bride Stripped Bare, Graydon Wood, Green Box, Mona Lisa, Abstract Expressionism, George Heard Hamilton, John Cage, Robert Lebel, Robert Smithson, Abstract Expressionist, Jacques Villon, Bruce Nauman, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Hans Richter, Man Ray, Octavio Paz, Richard Hamilton, Sad Young Man, Société Anonyme, Alan Solomon, Analytic Cubism New!
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Marcel Duchamp's pictures are still too few in number, and differ too much from one another, for one to generalize their qualities, or judge the real talents of their creator. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conceptual theater, swift nudes, par ses célibataires, chocolate grinder, nude descending, bottle rack, cet astre Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marcel Duchamp, New York, Etant Donnés, Philadelphia Museum, The Bride Stripped Bare, Graydon Wood, Green Box, Mona Lisa, Abstract Expressionism, George Heard Hamilton, John Cage, Robert Lebel, Robert Smithson, Abstract Expressionist, Jacques Villon, Bruce Nauman, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Hans Richter, Man Ray, Octavio Paz, Richard Hamilton, Sad Young Man, Société Anonyme, Alan Solomon, Analytic Cubism New!
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- Marcel Duchamp by Robert Lebel on 10 pages
- The Cubist Painters (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art) by Guillaume Apollinaire on 5 pages
- Dada Painters and Poets by Motherwell on 4 pages
- The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp (2 Volumes in 1) by Arturo Schwarz on 4 pages
- Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp (Da Capo Paperback) by Pierre Cabanne in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit by Dalia Judovitz on 11 pages
- Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) by Amelia Jones on 8 pages
- Duchamp: A Biography by Calvin Tomkins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cultural Semantics: Keywords of Our Time (Volume in the Series Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture) by Martin Jay in Back Matter
- The End of the Art World (Aesthetics Today) by Robert C. Morgan in Back Matter
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