Duchamp, Marcel 1887-1968

Marcel Duchamp by Anne D'Harnoncourt ( Book )
60 editions published between 1959 and 2004 in 7 languages and held by 1,823 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Genius, anti-artist, charlatan, guru, impostor? Since 1914 Marcel Duchamp has been called all these. No artist of the twentieth century has aroused more passion and controversy, nor exerted a greater influence on art, whose very nature Duchamp challenged and redefined as concept rather than product by questioning its traditionally privileged optical nature. At the same time, he never ceased to be engaged, openly or secretly, in provocative activities and works which transformed artmaking procedures. Written with the enthusiastic support of Duchamp's widow, this is one of the most original books ever written on this enigmatic artist, and challenges received ideas, misunderstanding and misinformation."--BOOK JACKET

Unpacking Duchamp art in transit by Dalia Judovitz ( )
10 editions published between 1995 and 1998 in English and held by 1,754 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect - and greater controversy - than Marcel Duchamp. Through a careful "unpacking" of his major works, Dalia Judovitz finds that Duchamp may well have the last laugh. She examines how he interpreted notions of mechanical reproduction in order to redefine the meaning and value of the art object, the artist, and artistic production. Judovitz begins with Duchamp's supposed abandonment of painting and his subsequent return to works that mimic art without being readily classifiable as such. Her book questions his paradoxical renouncing of pictorial and artistic conventions while continuing to evoke and speculatively draw upon them. She offers insightful analyses of his major works, including The Large Glass, Fountain, and Given: 1) the waterfall, 2) the illuminating gas

Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp by Pierre Cabanne ( Book )
17 editions published between 1967 and 1994 in 4 languages and held by 1,218 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Gesprekken van de Franse kunstcriticus met Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), een van de invloedrijkste kunstenaars van de twintigste eeuw

Marcel Duchamp : work and life by Jennifer Gough-Cooper ( Book )
8 editions published in 1993 in English and Undetermined and held by 859 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Marcel Duchamp : the art of making art in the age of mechanical reproduction by Francis M Naumann ( Book )
7 editions published between 1999 and 2004 in English and French and held by 733 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Examines how appropriation and replication were essential to Duchamp's art and disscusses the significance of the many replicas that he created or authorized

Avant-garde experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s ( Visual )
3 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 698 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime programmer at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles. Rohauer helped preserve and promote avant-garde cinema, and these films from his personal archive are some of the most influential and eclectic short films made during the 20th Century

Marcel Duchamp, the bachelor stripped bare : a biography by Alice Goldfarb Marquis ( Book )
2 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 546 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare is not the first full-length biography of Duchamp, but it is the first to present him in all his human contradictions and to take a refreshingly objective look at his real contribution to twentieth-century art. The well-known facts are explored here: Duchamp's myriad personal relations (with family, lovers, collectors, and artists ranging from Man Ray, Picabia, and Breton to the Stettheimer sisters and the Arensbergs); the creation of major works such as the "readymades" and the Large Glass; his passion for chess and presumed abandonment of painting. But beyond this, Alice Goldfarb Marquis looks past the diffident, humorous mask that Duchamp wore with friend and acquaintance alike, to explore the passions and insecurities that motivated many of his artistic and personal evolutions. And she separates the artist from the con artist, to determine just how profound an influence Duchamp has been."--BOOK JACKET

Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp --in resonance by Polly Koch ( Book )
7 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and held by 507 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This book chronicles the friendship and working relationship between Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) and Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), two of the twentieth century's most innovative and influential artists. Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp...in resonance publishes for the first time the Duchamp Dossier (c. 1942-53) - a hitherto publicly unknown collection compiled by Cornell and discovered in the artist's estate following his death in 1972. The small objects, typed and handwritten notes, and ephemera found within the Duchamp Dossier provide an absorbing record of the interchange between these two artists, which included Cornell's assisting Duchamp on the assembly of his edition de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Selavy (commonly referred to as the Boite-en-valise)." "Both artists were intrigued by the connection between art and the found object, and they shared a fascination with replicated images and the processes of reproduction. They had parallel interests in optical devices, ephemeral mediums (such as glass, dust, and paper), filmmaking, and graphic design. The book focuses in depth on Duchamp's box editions and Cornell's often neglected "explorations," arranged files of printed matter, notes, and ephemera related to individuals or specific themes."--BOOK JACKET

The complete works of Marcel Duchamp by Arturo Schwarz ( Book )
20 editions published between 1969 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 497 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
catalogue raisonné

Drawing on art : Duchamp and company by Dalia Judovitz ( Book )
4 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 474 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume explores the central importance of appropriation, collaboration, influence, and play in French artist Marcel Duchamp's (1887-1968) work -- and in Dada and Surrealism in general -- to show how the concept of art itself became the critical fuel and springboard for questioning art's fundamental premises. Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. The author maintains that rather than simply negating art, Duchamp's readymades (Duchamp's "readymades" are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art") and later works, including films and conceptual pieces, demonstrating the impossibility of defining art in the first place. Through his readymades, Duchamp explicitly critiqued the commodification of art and inaugurated a profound shift from valuing art for its visual appearance to understanding the significance of its mode of public presentation