Marcel Duchamp Livres

Dank Marcel Duchamp wissen wir, dass alles zu Kunst werden kann und dem Denken hier keine Grenze gesetzt ist. Die erste umfassende Ausstellung seit zwei Jahrzehnten zeigt Duchamps Werke aus allen Schaffensphasen der Jahre 1902 bis 1968 zeigt. Über sein Frühwerk postimpressionistischer Gemälde, seine Karikaturen und Auseinandersetzung mit dem Kubismus bis zu seinen ikonischen Readymakes offenbart sich das Denken Duchamps. Er schuf mit einer ihm eigenen beharrlichen Genauigkeit und eigensinniger Anarchie Werke, die erst durch uns als Betrachtende ihre Vollendung finden. So verändert sich das Werk mit uns und in der Zeit.

Der Briefwechsel wurde über 16 Jahre, bis zum Tod Marcel Duchamps 1968, geführt. Die Fotos, zum Teil unveröffentlicht, hatte Marcel Duchamp besonders geschätzt.

In the twenties, Surrealists proclaimed that words had stopped playing around and had begun to make love. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the writings of Marcel Duchamp, who fashioned some of the more joyous and ingenious couplings and uncouplings in modern art. This collection beings together two essential interviews and two statements about his art that underscore the serious side of Duchamp. But most of the book is made up of his experimental writings, which he called ”Texticles,” the long and extraordinary notes he wrote for The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Eben (also known as The Large Glass), and the outrageous puns and alter-ego he constructed for his female self, Rrose Sélavy (”Eros, c’est la vie” or “arouser la vie”—“drink it up”; “celebrate life”). Wacky, perverse, deliberately frustrating, these entertaining notes are basic for understanding one of the twentieth century’s most provocative artists, a figure whose influence on the contemporary scene has never been stronger.

Edited by Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe. Essays by Gerhard Graulich, Herbert Molderings.

Collects together a novel and a memoir of a triangular relationship during the early days of the Dada movement in New York along with its creative progeny, two magazines: The Blindman and Rongwrong. Henri-Pierre Roche is best known for his novel Jules et Jim, based on the three-sided relationship between himself, the artist Marcel Duchamp and the actress Beatrice Wood. A unique first-hand evocation of the three friends and lovers within their milieu, which included extraordinary characters such as Francis Picabia, Isadora Duncan, Arthur Cravan and many more.

In 1964, Calvin Tomkins spent a number of afternoons interviewing Marcel Duchamp in his apartment in New York City. It reveals him to be a man and an artist whose playful principles toward living freed him to make art that was as unpredictable, complex, and surprising as life itself