9780300233117-0300233116-The Essential Duchamp

The Essential Duchamp

ISBN-13: 9780300233117
ISBN-10: 0300233116
Edition: 1
Author: Matthew Affron
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback 200 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780300233117
ISBN-10: 0300233116
Edition: 1
Author: Matthew Affron
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback 200 pages

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The Essential Duchamp (ISBN-13: 9780300233117 and ISBN-10: 0300233116), written by authors Matthew Affron, was published by Yale University Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Monographs (Individual Artists, Arts Collections, History, Arts History & Criticism, Glass, Arts Other, Appreciation, Sculpture) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Essential Duchamp (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Monographs books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $4.05.

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An engaging and accessible introduction to one of the 20th century’s greatest and most enigmatic artists

This richly illustrated publication explores the full career of the hugely influential and endlessly fascinating French-American artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968). A pioneer whose creative output was predicated on a fundamental questioning of what art is, Duchamp is well known despite remaining mysterious as an artist, owing to his elusive persona and the unconventional nature of his work.

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 Sélavy and the optical experiments of the interwar years, and, finally, by the making of Étant donnés (1946–66), the project that occupied the artist in the final two decades of his life. Shorter accompanying texts include explanations of key terms Duchamp used for his innovative ideas—readymade, precision optics, pictorial nominalism, and infrathin—as well as interviews and statements by the artist about his own art and ideas.
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