THE ESSENTIAL DUCHAMP

Focusing on the world-renowned Duchamp collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Essential Duchamp tells the artist's story through four key periods. The book begins with his early paintings and engagement with the avant-garde, then charts his abandonment of painting and invention of the readymade. This is followed by the creation of his alter ego Rrose Selavy and the optical experimen ts of the interwar years, and, finally, by the making of Etant donnes (1946-66), the project that occupied the artist in the final t wo decades...[Llegir més]