Marcel Duchamp Rrose Sélavy : mocking art / Lars Blunck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blunck, Lars, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.

Duchamp, Marcel.

Artists--France.

Artists.

France.

Genre:

Biographies

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2025]

Biography/History:

Lars Blunck, Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg

Summary:

"Marcel Duchamp was one of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century. In 1920 he invented an alter ego called Rrose Sélavy, who would become one of the most dazzling characters in modern art. This ground-breaking book is the first to fully explore the complex history of Rrose Sélavy in detail. It takes into account all the relevant works, reconstructs all the historical contexts, and sheds light on Duchamp’s artistic attitude in the 1920s. "Known also under the name Rrose Sélavy" (Duchamp), he playfully and ironically mocked the pretensions of the art and artists of his time, friends and foes alike. In Rrose Sélavy, he, who rejected all -isms, took the liberty of creating his own -ism: a self-proclaimed "au-culism". Rrose Sélavy was mocking art"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Au-cul-ism

Arroser R(r)ose

Rrose’s domain

Making windows

An ominous sugar cage

Beautiful breath

Under the name Rrose Sélavy

Rrose herself

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed July 9, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Blunck, Lars Marcel Duchamp, Rrose Sélavy

ISBN:

9783689240424

3689240425

OCLC:

1559561290

Publisher Number:

CIPO000274394

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license