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Marcel Duchamp sent a telegram in 1947 congratulating Kiesler for the New York show ... Read more

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Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst are two of the greatest names associated with Dada and Surrealism, the iconoclastic art movements of the early part of the twentieth century. This detailed study brings their work into close proximity for the first time, examining the structural interaction of "ready-made" belief systems in their productions (Catholicism, masculinism, hermeticism). These artists are revealed as precursors of our postmodern obsessions with male and female identity and cultural fragmentation. ... Read more

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Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst
If you are looking for individual research involving either artist, look else where.Nonetheless, this book gives a good gleamce into two revolutionary artists lives as they relate to one another. The"true" father of modern art, Marcel Duchamp, and hismad-photographer, Max Ernst as their lives mingle between negative, photo,and glass. ... Read more

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The oeuvre Duchamp left us is small and repeatedly subject to multiple interpretations of the art historical, psychological, socio-critical and alchemical persuasion. And yet, how odd: Duchamp's last painting, Tu m' from 1918, has never drawn extensive attention among his exegetes. The title itself poses a riddle: Does it mean "tu m'aimes" (you love me), "tu m'embêtes" (you bore me) or "tu m'emmerdes" (you can kiss my ass)? Karl Gerstner, a prominent Swiss graphic designer who knew Duchamp personally, was taken aback the first time he saw Tu m', but also intrigued. Having acquired a reproduction of the picture, Gerstner proceeded to penetrate its meanings and surfaces more and more deeply; as his surprise faded, his fascination grew. Enter this book, encouraged by artist Richard Hamilton (perhaps the most intimate of Duchamp connoisseurs), and its 20 analytical essays of riddle-solving.Essay by Karl Gerstner.Hardcover, 8 x 11.5 in./55 pgs / 25 color 0 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20057 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 8454 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Modern artist Marcel Duchamp's concept of the readymade remains influential though controversial. I propose a new interpretation of the readymades as a coherent series of works that re-create the landscape of Paris in the artist's New York City studio. Using techniques that parallel the conceptual and visual transformations of space performed by cartography and by landscape painting, Duchamp created a personal, monumental, and three-dimensional "map" by replacing Parisian monuments with small-scale objects. The ready-mades thus expand on the quest of modern artists for innovative ways to represent landscape and, at the same time, offer geographers new ways of seeing landscape. Keywords: Marcel Duchamp, landscape, modern art, monuments, Paris, readymade sculpture, urban geography.

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Title: Marcel Duchamp's art and the geography of modern Paris.
Author: James Housefield
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 92Issue: 4Page: 477(26)

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Octavio Paz, uno de los mayores poetas del siglo XX y profundo conocedor de las aventuras artisticas de su tiempo, escribe sobre la obra de Marcel Duchamp un libro ya clasico, El castillo de la pureza, publicado en los anos sesenta. Mas tarde, en 1973, Paz vuelve sobre el texto y lo revisa a fondo y escribe una segunda parte. Ambos textos fueron revisados, corregidos y ampliados mas tarde, y esa es la version que se publica hoy en el volumen que el lector tiene en sus manos. Marcel Duchamp fue un revolucionario no solo en el arte, como lo demuestra su anticipacion a muchas de las actuales tendencias, sino tambien en la relacion entre el artista y la vida. Del Gran Vidrio a los ensamblajes, Duchamp mantuvo una actitud distanciada y secreta, una ocultacion de la propia obra que solo ahora recobra toda su significacion: silencio que es un lenguaje, falsa inactividad que es critica e ironia y que, poniendo en crisis la figura misma del artista, del mito del arte, desarregla las nociones adquiridas, abre una riesgosa y deslumbrante zona a la inteligencia creadora, propone un nuevo modo de ver. Es imposible entrar en los cambiantes espacios del arte que se esta haciendo hoy sin atender a las claves que nos dan el silencio y la obra de Duchamp, su accion actualisima y saludablemente perturbadora a la que nos acercanos de la mano de Octavio Paz en este libro cada vez mas imprescindible. ... Read more

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This splendid celebration of the illustrated book as an art form begins with remarkable works produced in France by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin at the end of the 19th century, and traces the international development of the modern illustrated book to the last decade of the 20th century. Major artists of the modern movement, among them Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, turned to the "illumination" of poems, classical literature, and their own writings to make books that are now collectors' objects, luxuriously produced. Such limited editions have continued to be produced alongside other types of artists' books aimed at a much larger audience. The more available artists' books have served a different purpose, often expressing aesthetic and political principles, in the hands of such artists as Kasimir Malevich, Marcel Duchamp, Ed Ruscha, Joseph Beuys, and Barbara Kruger. Accompanying texts consider the historical background, complex relationships between artists and book manufacturers, technical constraints, and recent changes.

Essays by Riva Castleman,
Foreword by Richard E. Oldenburg. ... Read more

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There is not one Marcel Duchamp, but several. Within his oeuvre Duchamp practiced a variety of modernist idioms and invented an array of contradictory personas: artist and art dealer, conceptualist and craftsman, chess champion and dreamer, dandy and recluse.

In Infinite Regress, David Joselit considers the plurality of identities and practices within Duchamp's life and art between 1910 and 1941, conducting a synthetic reading of his early and middle career. Taking into account underacknowledged works and focusing on the conjunction of the machine and the commodity in Duchamp's art, Joselit notes a consistent opposition between the material world and various forms of measurement, inscription, and quantification. Challenging conventional accounts, he describes the readymade strategy not merely as a rejection of painting, but as a means of producing new models of the modern self. ... Read more

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For the Academics
Joselit's study of Duchamp is a top-notch academic book and for the non art history buffs, it will certainly be a challenging read. Joselit's vocabulary is immense and sophisticated and without direct references to the reproductions included in the text (ie. Nude Decending a Staircase, figure 1, p. 33) his assertations can be hard to follow. For those already familiar with Duchamp and his art, this book will take your knowledge to the next level. Joselit is an incredible modern scholar.

A work of impeccable scholarship
Thorough, rigorous and provocative.Joselit provides fresh insight into the intellectual basis of Duchamp's work and arrives at some startling conclusions, but never makes any flying leaps of his own-- his results stemfrom careful research and solid analysis.Jammin'! ... Read more