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The world of Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Time-Life library of artPublication details: New York : Time-Life Books, 1972.Edition: RevDescription: 192 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.04
LOC classification:
  • N6853.D8 T6 1972
Contents:
A most unlikely patron saint -- Through art to anti-art -- The nightmare cry of Dada -- A legend under glass -- Surrealism's dream world -- Limp watches and high ideals -- A new art in America -- Idol of the iconoclasts.
Summary: "Long ignored by the art public and appreciated by few of his contemporaries, Duchamp...is being increasing valued as the most potent influence on the diverse, antitraditional arts of the mid-20th Century" -- p. 7.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 709.2 TOM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) N6853.D8 T6 1 Available 34517000195779

Includes bibliographical references (page 185) and index.

A most unlikely patron saint -- Through art to anti-art -- The nightmare cry of Dada -- A legend under glass -- Surrealism's dream world -- Limp watches and high ideals -- A new art in America -- Idol of the iconoclasts.

"Long ignored by the art public and appreciated by few of his contemporaries, Duchamp...is being increasing valued as the most potent influence on the diverse, antitraditional arts of the mid-20th Century" -- p. 7.

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