The Writings Of Marcel Duchamp (Paperback, Revised)

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 Selavy ("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.

General

Imprint:	Da Capo Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1989
First published:	April 1989
Authors:	Elmer Peterson • Marcel Duchamp • Michel Sanouillet
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	196
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-80341-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General Promotions
LSN:	0-306-80341-0
Barcode:	9780306803413

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