Joseph Masbeck (Editor)
Marcel Duchamp in Perspective.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1975. Artists in Perspective series First printing. 0135563089 xi/184 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"With such works as "Nude Descending a Staircase" (1912) and the urinal which he presented as the ready-made "Fountain" (1917), Marcel Duchamp extended modern art while pretending to destroy it. The result, as the contributors to this volume show, was a new way of thinking that blurred the traditional distinction between life and art, providing inspiration for a variety of groups ranging from Pop to Conceptual Art.
In this illustrated volume, such contributors as Clement Greenberg, Thomas Hess, Max Kozloff, and Claude Levi-Strauss trace the positive and negative reactions to Duchamp and his works, from the early Cubist paintings through the "ready-mades" to the ironic and chance constructions of his later career.
In analyzing the artist who dismissed his works by saying "Nothing was intended," this volume shows that Marcel Duchamp is truly one of the most significant figures of 20th-century art."