The Essential Writings Of Marcel Duchamp
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Few artists have reshaped the landscape of modern art with the radical audacity of Marcel Duchamp, and The Essential Writings of Marcel Duchamp presents his most seminal texts in a single, indispensable volume. Edited by Michel Sanouillet and Elmer Peterson, this landmark collection gathers Duchamp's notes, interviews, lectures, and correspondence, granting direct access to the razor-sharp intellect behind such revolutionary works as the readymades and Nude Descending a Staircase — a mind that dismantled the very definition of art and dared the world to keep up. What emerges from these pages is not merely an artist's commentary, but a philosophical manifesto that continues to reverberate through contemporary art, theory, and culture. Duchamp's prose is characteristically playful yet precise, infused with the same subversive wit that defined his Dadaist and Conceptualist provocations. This collection stands as essential reading for anyone serious about understanding the 20th century's most influential artistic rebel — and it leaves one wondering whether art, as Duchamp insisted, is ultimately nothing more than a game of chess played in the dark.
Author: Marcel Duchamp
Format: Hardback
Genre: The arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Few artists have reshaped the landscape of modern art with the radical audacity of Marcel Duchamp, and The Essential Writings of Marcel Duchamp presents his most seminal texts in a single, indispensable volume. Edited by Michel Sanouillet and Elmer Peterson, this landmark collection gathers Duchamp's notes, interviews, lectures, and correspondence, granting direct access to the razor-sharp intellect behind such revolutionary works as the readymades and Nude Descending a Staircase — a mind that dismantled the very definition of art and dared the world to keep up. What emerges from these pages is not merely an artist's commentary, but a philosophical manifesto that continues to reverberate through contemporary art, theory, and culture. Duchamp's prose is characteristically playful yet precise, infused with the same subversive wit that defined his Dadaist and Conceptualist provocations. This collection stands as essential reading for anyone serious about understanding the 20th century's most influential artistic rebel — and it leaves one wondering whether art, as Duchamp insisted, is ultimately nothing more than a game of chess played in the dark.