Marcel Duchamp

by Jennifer Gough-Cooper, Karl Gunnar Pontus Hultén, Jacques Caumont

A must for Duchamp devotees everywhere!

This little introduction to the life and works of Marcel Duchamp was originally published to accompany a Duchamp retrospective at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Modelled on a children's book it contains 12 dead-pan full-page colour illustrations of events in Duchamp's life with an equally tongue-in-cheek, and entirely accurate, biography. The book was much admired at the time (Andy Warhol being an enthusiast, among others), this is its first appearance in English.

Genres: Biography, Art

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[Axolotl · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this well enough and my interest was peaked by the heteronym Rrose Selavy, that I think I will seek out the work by the same authors in this connexion published by Thames and Hudson.

A nice little primer on a great and melancholy man by treasure-trove publisher Atlas Press.