In the twenties, Surrealists proclaimed that words had stopped playing around and had begun to make love. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the writings of Marcel Duchamp, who fashioned some of the more joyous and ingenious couplings and uncouplings in modern art. This collection beings together two essential interviews and two statements about his art that underscore the serious side of Duchamp. But most of the book is made up of his experimental writings, which he called ”Texticles,” the long and extraordinary notes he wrote for The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Eben (also known as The Large Glass), and the outrageous puns and alter-ego he constructed for his female self, Rrose Sélavy (”Eros, c’est la vie” or “arouser la vie”—“drink it up”; “celebrate life”). Wacky, perverse, deliberately frustrating, these entertaining notes are basic for understanding one of the twentieth century’s most provocative artists, a figure whose influence on the contemporary scene has never been stronger.
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- Man Ray (TASCHEN Icons Series) by TASCHEN in Front Matter, page 118, and page 165
- Marcel Duchamp by Robert Lebel on page 181, and Back Matter
- Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp (Da Capo Paperback) by Pierre Cabanne on page 105, and Back Matter
- The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp (2 Volumes in 1) by Arturo Schwarz in Back Matter
- The Cubist Painters (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art) by Guillaume Apollinaire on page 3
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- Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) by Amelia Jones on 20 pages
- Frameworks for Modern Art (Art of the Twentieth Century) by Professor Jason Gaiger on page 102, page 103, and Back Matter
- Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams by Mark Ford in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- American Avant-Garde Theatre (Theatre Production Studies) by Arnold Aronson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- 21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics (Blackwell Manifestos) by Marjorie Perloff in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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