The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp
2nd Edition
Published on 1. September 1997
Book
Hardback
1000 pages
978-0-500-09250-7 (ISBN)
Description
Marcel Duchamp was a controversial and influential figure in 20th-century art. He achieved early notoriety with the painting "Nude Descending a Staircase", exhibited at the Armory Show in New York in 1913. He questioned the concept of "the work of art" and even the validity of art itself. Originally published in 1969, this book, containing four new chapters, is a revised edition of a survey of Duchamp's work, life and ideas. The text examines his artistic experimentation and his constant search for new expressive possibilities, and includes an analysis of his masterpiece "The Large Glass". Illustrated appendices provide a catalogue raisonne of all known works - including 253 that have recently been discovered - and a bibliography of his writings, lectures, translations and interviews.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
222 colour plates & 1000 b&w illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 310 mm
Width: 250 mm
Weight
8460 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-500-09250-7 (9780500092507)
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Previous edition
Marcel Duchamp | Arturo Schwarz
The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp
Book
02/1970
Thames & Hudson Ltd
€44.80
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Content
Part 1 Early works, ready-mades, and other domains: the rebel as a young man (1902-1911); putting painting at the service of the mind; from the fourth dimension to the ready-made (1912-1913); from the ready made to a Rembrandt used as an ironing board; from the beauty of precision to precision optics (1918-1968); precision play - an aspect of the beauty of precision. Part 2 The large glass and related works: what's in a word; young man and girl in spring; psychological and formal antecedents (1911-1912); the large glass (1915-1923); the bridge stripped bare; the batchelor's odyssey. Part 3 Continuing and completing the large glass: ready-mades, puns and the large glass - unconscious and symbolic associations; Rose Selavy, alias Belle Haleine alias Marchand du Sel; continuing the large glass; completing the large glass; perpetual check; there is no solution because there is no problem; postscript - the clock in profile. Part 4 The source material: catalogue raisonne; topographical index; elements of a descriptive bibliography of Duchamp's writings, lectures, translations and interviews; bibliography of works quoted.