
Marcel Duchamp
Published on 7. June 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-500-20322-4 (ISBN)
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Description
Thirty years of research have gone into this accessible text on a complex artist. Written with the enthusiastic support of Duchamp's widow, this is one of the most original and important books ever written on this enigmatic artist, and challenges received ideas, misunderstanding and misinformation.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
122 Illustrations, black and white; 42 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 149 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-500-20322-4 (9780500203224)
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Dawn Ades | Neil Cox | David Hopkins
Marcel Duchamp
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03/2021
2nd Edition
Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Persons
Dawn Ades is Professor Emerita of the History and Theory of Art at the University of Essex. She has written extensively on Dada, Surrealism, photography and women artists, among other things. Publications include Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Writings on Art and Anti-Art, Marcel Duchamp (with Neil Cox and David Hopkins) and Photomontage. Among the exhibitions she has organised or co-organised are 'Art in Latin America' (1989); 'Fetishism: Visualising Power and Desire' (1995); 'Salvador Dali: The Centenary Retrospective' (2004); 'Undercover Surrealism' (2006); and 'Dali/Duchamp' (2017-18). Professor Neil Cox is currently Chair in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and was formerly lecturer in Art History and the Theory of Art at the University of Essex.
Content
Origins; Catholicism and the symbolist inheritance; passages; dry art, "The Retinal Shudder" and the planning of The Large Glass; The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass); anti-art, Rose Selavy and surrealism; the readymades and "life on credit"; replicas, casts and the infra-thin; etant donnes; postscript - Duchamp after Duchamp.