The Writings of Marcel Duchamp

The Writings of Marcel Duchamp

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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
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Paperback, 208 pages
Published March 22nd 1989 by Da Capo Press (first published 1973)
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still not finished... Duchamp is next in line from Alfred Jarry, and his time is only just arriving. Once you clear the debris of the alchemical/pataphysical/pseudobeatnik/conceptual installation disaster that was the last half of the 20th century the way ahead is clear... it was there: the basic hermetic, logic-driven search for the most basic of elements... zeros and ones, and "male" and "female." shazaam! Duchamp's cool theories on winning at roulette at Monaco. He was a rich man! (probably f...more
tENTATIVELY, cONVENIENCE
Reading about things like Duchamp's ideas behind "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" was probably a big stimulus for me at age 22. It seems like it wd've influenced my own sculpture "Frame of Reference" & an associated work "Policy Blueprint" but, maybe not, b/c it seems to me that I made them before I read this bk. Then again, I probably read Schwarz's huge bk on Duchamp before I made those pieces so we're back to Duchamp again. At any rate, Duchamp's love of puns & their c...more
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The Green Box material is great.

It's all great, but definitely is a nice adjunct to Tomkins's bio or other information.
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Marcel Duchamp (also known as Rrose Sélavy) was a French artist (he became an American citizen in 1955) whose work and ideas had considerable influence on the development of post-World War I Western art, and whose advice to modern art collectors helped shape the tastes of the Western art world.

While he is most often associated with Dada and Surrealism, his participation in Surrealism was largely b...more
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Affectionately, Marcel: The Selected Correspondence Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even Manual of Instructions for Etant Donnes Duchamp Du Signe Marcel Duchamp: Manual of Instructions: Etant donnes, revised edition

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