Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968 : art as anti-art

Summary: When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist's Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in a gallery, sent shock waves through the art world establishment that continue to reverberate to the present day. Duchamp made a career out of challenging our notions of what art is and, in the process, opened our minds to hitherto unknown possibilities. After an oblique version of Cubism in his early career, the artist made his name with Nude Descending a Staircase (1912), a groundbreaking blend of abstraction, Cubism, and Futurism, with a controversially mechanical titular nude.

Record details

ISBN: 3836534320
ISBN: 9783836534321
Physical Description: print
95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Publisher: Koln : Taschen, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

General Note:	Original edition published in 1995.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Machine generated contents note: Why Not Sneeze? -- A Young Man in Spring -- On a Train of Thought -- Breaking Free -- Major Accomplishments.