Marcel Duchamp: Etant Donnes

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ISBN-10:

0876332106

ISBN-13:

9780876332108

Released: Jan 01, 2009
Format: Hardcover, 447 pages

Description:

In his early thirties, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) convinced everyone that he had abandoned making art in favor of playing chess. But from 1946 to 1966, he was secretly at work in his studio on West 14th Street in New York City. There he produced his final masterpiece: Étant donnés: 1º la chute d'eau, 2º le gaz d?éclairage, composed of a battered wood door through which one views a prone, nude female, holding aloft an antique gas lamp against a landscape of trees, waterfall, and sky. Unveiled as a permanent installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in July 1969, the year after Duchamp?s death, it startled the art world with its explicit eroticism and voyeurism, as well as its trompe l?oeil realism. Since its public debut, Étant donnés has been recognized as one of the most important and enigmatic works of the 20th century. Published to commemorate t

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