Author: Seigel, Jerrold
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The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture
Price: $9.98
Publisher: University of California Press : October 1995
Seller ID: 437386
ISBN-13: 9780520200388
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good
Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its contradictions and discontinuities, its disparate parts unified only by their assault on the traditions of art. Jerrold Seigel offers a wholly different view, revealing a web of interrelated themes that unify Duchamp's work and tie it to his life. At the book's center is a reinterpretation of the famous "readymades," of which the urinal "Fountain" and the defaced Mona Lisa were the most shocking. By reco...
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