Marcel Duchamp

by Jacques Caumont, Harald Szeemann

A one-time Fauvist, Cubist, Dadaist, and Surrealist, but an eternal chess player, Marcel Duchamp remains the avant-garde figure beyond all avant-garde figures of the past century. Provocative and brilliant, he radically challenged and changed accepted notions of art and its manufacture, and of the relationship between art and life. Marcel Duchamp, published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Jean Tinguely Museum in Basel under the curatorship of Harald Szeeman, endeavors to trace the different periods of Duchamp's oeuvre by means of a selection of his work focused mainly on those aspects that influenced Tinguely's own oeuvre. Additionally, the publication contains statements by Duchamp and essays by renowned Duchamp scholars on such topics as the emergence and development of the ready-made concept and its impact on the art of the 1960s.

Genres: Art

232 pages, Hardcover

Published August 15, 2002

Reviews

[Tommy Bat-Blog Brookshire · Rating 3 out of 5]

I gave this book a 3-star rating because I felt it was lacking in a ton of information. It's not exactly a well detailed biography by any means. Plus, the photos of the artwork could have been way better quality. But, I guess if you're not at all in any way familiar with who the Artist Marcel Duchamp was, or what his work looked like, then this might be a good 1st read.

[Tosh · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of my first books I bought on Marcel Duchamp, a major artist in the 20th Century but also an artist that is close to my heart. An overall good volume on the man and his art.

[Jasonarasim · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this guy.