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Duchamp

A Biography

By Calvin Tomkins

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| Paperback | 9780805057898

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A New York Times Notable Book of 1996Booklist Editor's Choice, 1996The celebrated, full-scale life of the century's most influential artist. One of the giants of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp changed the course of modern art. Visual arts, music, dance, performance--nothing was ever the same Continue

A New York Times Notable Book of 1996Booklist Editor's Choice, 1996The celebrated, full-scale life of the century's most influential artist. One of the giants of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp changed the course of modern art. Visual arts, music, dance, performance--nothing was ever the same again because he had shifted art's focus from the retinal to the mental. Duchamp sidestepped the banal and sentimental to find the relationship between symbol and object and to unearth the concepts underlying art itself. The author's intimacy with the subject and glorious prose style, wit, and deep sense of irony--"the only antidote to despair"--make him the perfect writer to bring this stunning life story to intelligent readers everywhere.

Critics

  • Sounds like hell to me

    You step up to the wooden door, a heavy, rustic affair set in a brick arch, and you peer through two small holes conveniently set at around head height. You do this not because you are a snoop, but because this is an installation at the Philadelphia ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

  • Confidence Man

    “ Le vrai héros s’amuse tout seul.” —Baudelaire For fifty years after he had avowedly ceased painting, Marcel Duchamp spent much of his time advising friends what art works to collect. He helped Katherine Dreier form the one-woman museum of modern ar ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 560 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0805057897
  • ISBN-13: 9780805057898
  • Publisher: Owl Books
  • Pub date: Mar 15, 1998
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Others
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