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1) Duchamp
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64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.
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English
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189 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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"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...
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"In 1915, a group of French artists fled war-torn Europe for New York. In the few months between their arrival -- and America's entry into the war in April 1917 -- they pushed back the boundaries of the possible, in both life and art. The vortex of this transformation was the apartment at 33 West 67th Street, owned by Walter and Louise Arensberg, where artists and poets met nightly to talk, eat, drink, discuss each others' work, play chess, plan balls,...
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63 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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Published on the 50th 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 examines its context?the dinner with Man Ray and another friend, Robert Lebel, the night Duchamp died, the conversations...
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