Marcel Duchamp; Étant donnés

by Michael R. Taylor; With essays by Andrew Lins, Melissa S. Meighan, and Beth A. P

• ISBN13: 9780300149791
• ISBN10: 0300149794
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2009-08-25
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

In his early thirties, Marcel Duchamp (18871968) 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 14th Street in New York City. There he produced his final masterpiece:Etant donnes: 1 la chute d'eau, 2 le gaz d'eclairage, 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, it startled the art world with its explicit eroticism and voyeurism, as well as its trompe l'oeil realism. Since its public debut,Etant donneshas been recognized as one of the most important and enigmatic works of the 20th century. Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the original installation of Etant donnesand to accompany the first major exhibition on the artwork and its studies, this richly illustrated book presents a wealth of new research and documents that draw upon previously unpublished works of art and materials. The catalogue also examines the critical and artistic reception ofEtant donnes,as evidenced by the subsequent work of Les Levine, Hannah Wilke, Robert Gober, Marcel Dzama, Ray Johnson, and other artists who have engaged with Duchamp's provocative and challenging tableau-construction.

Author Biography

Michael R. Taylor is the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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