Duchamp A Biography

Name: Duchamp A Biography
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ISBN: 9780805057898

ISBN-10: 0805057897

ISBN-13: 9780805057898

Edition: Revised

Authors: Calvin Tomkins

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A New York Times Notable Book of 1996 Booklist Editor's Choice, 1996 The celebrated, full-scale life of the century's most influential artist. One of the giants of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp changed the course of modern art. Visual arts, music, dance, performance--nothing was ever the same again because he had shifted art's focus from the retinal to the mental. Duchamp sidestepped the banal and sentimental to find the relationship between symbol and object and to unearth the concepts underlying art itself. The author's intimacy with the subject and glorious prose style, wit, and deep sense of irony--"the only antidote to despair"--make him the perfect writer to bring this…

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 3/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English