Writings of Marcel Duchamp PB

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.

Author: Marcel Duchamp, Michel Sanouillet, Elmer Peterson
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 03/22/1989
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.98w x 0.54d
ISBN13: 9780306803413
ISBN10: 0306803410
BISAC Categories:
- Art | History | General
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Art | Individual Artists | General

About the Author
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada.