{"product_id":"9781941701874-duchamps-last-day","title":"Duchamp's Last Day","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished on the fiftieth anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's death,  Duchamp's Last Day  offers a radical reading of the artist's final hours . Just moments after Duchamp died, his closest friend Man Ray took a  photograph of him. His face is wan; his eyes are closed; he appears calm.  Taking this image as a point of departure, Donald Shambroom begins to  examine the surrounding context-the dinner with Man Ray and another  friend, Robert Lebel, the night Duchamp died, the conversations about his  own death at that dinner and elsewhere, and the larger question of whether  this radical artist's death can be read as an extension of his work. Shambroom's in-depth research into this final night, and his analysis of the  photograph, feeds into larger questions about the very nature of artworks  and authorship which Duchamp raised in his lifetime. In the case of this  mysterious and once long-lost photograph, who is the author? Man Ray or  Duchamp? Is it an artwork or merely a record? Has the artist himself turned  into one of his own readymades? A  fascinating  essay  that  is  both  intimate  and  steeped  in  art  history,   Duchamp's Last Day  is filled with intricate details from decades of research  into this peculiar encounter between art, life, and death. Shambroom's book  is a wonderful study of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48889001410779,"sku":"9781941701874","price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a77aab1d-c2c0-4d4c-9f09-acc1eb1ad620.jpg?v=1781792086","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781941701874-duchamps-last-day","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}