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Best known for cheeky conceptual works--like his signed urinals ("R. Mutt") and his graffitioed Mona Lisa--Marcel Duchamp (1887--1968) was also an extraordinary painter and sculptor (Nude Descending a Staircase) who changed the language of twentieth-century art and reigns with Picasso and Matisse as one of its greatest influences. Joseph Masheck has compiled a sampler of the best writing on Duchamp, with pieces that include Duchamp's obituary from Artforum, written by Jasper Johns; Octavio Paz on the ready-mades; a Duchamp post-mortem by Hans Richter; Donald Judd's investigation of Rrose Selavy; a "Counter-Avant-Garde" by Clement Greenberg; a consideration by Guillaume Apollinaire; and John Cage's "26 Statements on Marcel Duchamp." Illustrated with photographs of Duchamp's seminal pieces, and updated with a substantial preface that offers new scholarship as well as a fascinating consideration of why Duchamp's popularity has exponentially increased since this book first appeared, this is an essential volume for the Duchamp devotee.

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Book category Books in English The arts Art treatments & subjects Individual artists, art monographs

• Full title: Marcel Duchamp In Perspective
• Author: Joseph Masheck
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9780306810572
• ISBN: 0306810573
• ID: 04575353
• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Weight: 360 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 157 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2002

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