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Marcel Duchamp: Etant Donnes
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In his early thirties, Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) convinced everyone that he had abandoned making art in favor of playing chess. But from 1946 to 1966, he was secretly at work in his studio on West 14th Street in New York City. There he produced his final masterpiece: Étant donnés: 1º la chute d'eau, 2º le gaz d’éclairage, com...more
Hardcover, 448 pages
Published
August 25th 2009
by Yale University Press
(first published 2009)
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Incredible images and documentation on Marcel Duchamp's great and his last piece of work "Etant donnes. When everyone thought he was playing chess, Duchamp has been working secretly on his late masterpiece. A work that is still disturbing and frankly shocking.
Violence, eros, and mystery all wrapped in one art work. Yale University did a fantastic job in putting this volume together. There are tons of Duchamp books out there, but this is truly an essential volume. The more o...more
Violence, eros, and mystery all wrapped in one art work. Yale University did a fantastic job in putting this volume together. There are tons of Duchamp books out there, but this is truly an essential volume. The more o...more
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This is a highly informative documentation of the creation of Duchamp's last, and highly important, work.
Michael Taylor's essays on Duchamp are insightful. This is a beautiful book and I'm sure the exhibition was stunning as well.
I really like Etant donnes, but I also sort of hate Duchamp for making it.
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