Marcel Duchamp : [exhibition, Museum Jean Tinguely Basel, 20 March - 30 June 2002] / edited by the Museum Jean Tinguely Basel ; [ed.: Annja Müller-Alsbach, Heinz Stahlhut, Harald Szeemann].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.

Müller-Alsbach, Annja.

Stahlhut, Heinz.

Szeemann, Harald.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Museum Jean Tinguely Basel.

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968--Exhibitions.

Duchamp, Marcel.

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

231 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Basel : Museum Jean Tinguely ; Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz, [2002]

Summary:

Marcel Duchamp is considered one of the most important members of the avant-garde and a ground-breaker in 20th century art. As his work provocatively reveals the relationship between art and life and the prerequisites for its existence--thus radically changing the notion of the work of art and its manufacturer--his influence extends well into the present. This book endeavours to trace the different periods of Duchamp's oeuvre by means of a selection of his works, focusing mainly on aspects that influenced Jean Tinguely's oeuvre: The mechanical, movements, and the optical, play and humor, His painting "Nu descendant un escaller (Nude Descending a Staircase) from 1912, in which he dissects the movement of the nude into stills composed of abstract surfaces, thus creating a static picture of movement, is but one example. The publication contains statements by Duchamp himself as well as essays be renowned authors on such topics as the emergence and development of the ready-made concept and its impact on the art of the sixties.

Contents:

The Gallantry of Radicalism / Harald Szeemann 9

Thoughts on Duchamp and Tinguely / Jacques Caumont 12

Relativism and a Historical Sense: Duchamp in Munich (and Basle ...) / Herbert Molderings 15

Marcel Duchamp: The Most Influential Artist of the 20th Century? / Dieter Daniels 25

Marcel Duchamp Talking about Readymades: Interview by Philippe Collin, Galerie Givaudan, Paris, 21 June 1967 37

The Creative Act / Marcel Duchamp 43

What's at Play in the Wordplay: A Rendezvous Not to Be Missed / Marc Decimo 45

Works 50

Infra-Thin Encounters of an Erotic Kind: Duchamp's Game with Gender Difference / Elisabeth Bronfen 145

Often Neglected-But One of the Greats: Interview with Jean Tinguely by Dieter Daniels, Cologne, 12 January 1987 155

1. From Madame Bovary to Impressions d'Afrique (1887-1912)

2. Mirage towards Basle and What Followed (1912-15)

3. From La Mariee mise a nu par ses celibataires to Notre Dame des desirs (1915-68).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

3775711953

9783775711951

OCLC:

265452387