Marcel Duchamp: Etant Donnes Tapa dura - 2009

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Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009. Paperback. New. New oversized softcover in printed wraps. 4to. (11 x 1 x 9½) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Beautiful color photography on glossy paper throughout the text. Includes section on suggested reading, photo credits and an index. 447 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In his early thirties, Marcel Duchamp convinced everyone that he had abandoned making art in favor of playing chess. But from 1946 to 1966, he was secretly at work in his studio on West Fourteenth Street in New York City. There he produced his final Étant donné 1º la chute d'eau, 2º le gaz d'éclairage, composed of a battered wood door through which one views a prone, nude female, holding aloft an antique gas lamp against a landscape of trees, waterfall, and sky. Unveiled as a permanent installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in July 1969, the year after Duchamp's death, the work startled the art world with its explicit eroticism and… Leer más

Philadelphia Museum of Art. New very oversize paperback just removed from publisher's shrink wrap. Includes essays by Andrew Lins, Melissa S. Meighan, Beth A. Price, Ken Sutherland, Scott Homolka, and Elena Torok. International or expedited shipping may require extra charge. . New. Paperback. 1987.

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