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In un mondo in cui l'occhio e tutti gli altri sensi umani sono sottoposti ogni giorno a una serie di prove psicologiche in forme e modalità accresciute, continue e per lo più inconsapevoli, l'arte di Duchamp rappresenta, ancora oggi, un esercizio per collaudare non solo la nostra capacità di vedere e percepire, ma anche di esistere. Se vivere significa emanciparsi dall'incatenamento a uno scopo determinato, allora l'arte, quando funge da “test”, può servire a misurare, di tanto in tanto, quanto siamo davvero consapevoli della nostra libertà. A partire da questo presupposto, Marco Senaldi ci conduce in un inedito e avvincente viaggio “a ritroso” nellʻopera di Marcel Duchamp.

Marcel Duchamp is today considered one of the most significant 20th century artists worldwide. His far-reaching influence is visible within a variety of areas of creative production and critical inquiry, extending far beyond the world of art. Duchamp Accelerated: Contemporary Perspectives examines Duchamp and his reception through a series of essays that explore the ongoing impacts of his life, ideas and practice on innumerable fields of research, practice and study. Contributors include art historians, curators, artists and writers who offer histories and approaches that actively challenge dominant narratives on Duchamp, discussing his influences from a multitude of different disciplinary and cultural perspectives. Written in the specific context of the 21st century, this volume situates the artist firmly in a global context and highlights the numerous influences – from theories of perception and the writings of Georges Bataille, to travels in Argentina – that shaped his ideas and art. This volume pushes current understandings of Duchamp beyond existing limits by accelerating the histories, encounters, dialogues and interpretations of his practice, with a focus on contemporary perspectives. The'accelerated'Duchamp that emerges from this analysis is one who not only speeds up notions of art in relation to cultural and political histories, but one whose practice is actively informing future developments in the worlds of art and material culture today.

Le opere e i fatti, le vicende, i rapporti, la vita di un artista che, più di tutto, è stato uno sperimentatore di ipotesi, procedure e idee. Muovendosi tra i temi duchampiani più noti – il possibile, l'oggetto'già fatto', l'arte come atto mentale, l'erotismo, l'ironia, il caso – Carla Subrizi rilegge un'intera parabola artistica, dall'atto di nominare'opera d'arte'un oggetto qualsiasi alla realizzazione di un'opera ai confini tra immagine e parola, alla decisione estrema di mantenere segreta un'opera per più di venti anni e rivelarla al pubblico solo dopo la propria morte. Una biografia che è anche riflessione sui processi di significazione dell'arte del XX secolo.

Genius. Anti-artist. Charlatan. Impostor! Since 1914 Marcel Duchamp has been called all of these. No artist of the 20th century has aroused more passion and controversy, nor exerted a greater influence on art, the very nature of which Duchamp challenged and redefined as concept rather than product by questioning its traditionally privileged optical nature. At the same time, he never ceased to be engaged, openly or secretly, in provocative activities and works that transformed traditional artmaking procedures. Written with the enthusiastic support of Duchamps widow, this is one of the most original and important books ever written on this enigmatic artist, and challenges received ideas, misunderstanding and misinformation.

Mit The Great Hidden Inspirer, dem vierten Band der Poiesis-Reihe, widmet sich der renommierte Duchamp-Forscher Michael R. Taylor der Rolle Marcel Duchamps als heimlichem Drahtzieher in entscheidenden Momenten der Kunstgeschichte. In dem titelgebenden Aufsatz deckt Taylor auf, dass es Duchamp war, der dem Surrealismus in seinem New Yorker Exil zwischen 1942 und 1947 aus der Krise half und der Bewegung eine neue Richtung gab. Anlässlich des 100-jährigen Jubiläums von Duchamps wohl provokantestem Geniestreich Fountain erscheint ein weiterer Essay von Taylor in diesem Band. »Blind Man's Bluff« beschreibt die Hintergründe des Ereignisses, bei dem ein Pissoir die Kunstwelt erschütterte. Die damaligen Versuche, dieses provokante Objekt einzuordnen, zeugen von den Schwierigkeiten seiner Kritiker zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, sich von tradierten ästhetischen Vorstellungen zu lösen. MARCEL DUCHAMP, eigentlich Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), zählt zu den Wegbereitern des Dadaismus und Surrealismus. Seine Ansichten stellen den gängigen Kunstbegriff radikal in Frage und führten das Readymade in die Kunstwelt ein.

Duchamp donne la formule complète de la modernité à l'aide de concepts empruntés aux sciences : quatrième dimension, infra-mince et nominalisme pictural règlent le fonctionnement de toute son oeuvre. Il entend ainsi restaurer une unité de l'expérience esthétique où le sens se donnera dans ses seuls effets plastiques.

»Duchamp in Mexiko« versammelt drei zentrale Essays César Airas, die ihn erstmals nicht nur als genialen Autor von Novellen und Romanen zeigen, sondern ihm die Möglichkeit geben, sein eigenständiges und stilistisch virtuoses Nachdenken über Kunst und Literatur zu entdecken. Ausgehend von Marcel Duchamp über de Chirico bis Lezama Lima entwickelt Aira in den Texten eine eigene Theorie der modernen Kunst und reicht dem Leser unter der Hand zudem einen Schlüssel für seine eigenen Texte. Mit »Duchamp in Mexiko« überführt César Aira die Avantgarde nun auch konzeptionell ins neue Jahrhundert.

Marcel Duchamp's life and work in more than 200 alphabetical entries, using the latest scholarship and research. Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) was one of the founding fathers of modern art, Dada and Surrealism: in the words of artist Thomas Hirschhorn, Duchamp was'the most intelligent mind of his time'. Despite his popularity and provocative art, discussions often shroud his work in theory, but this book uses lively dictionary entries (from Alchemy and Anatomy to Warhol, via the Bicycle Wheel, Chess and the Fourth Dimension) to make his work and influence highly accessible and enjoyable.''The Duchamp Dictionary'is exactly the sort of book Duchamp himself would have enjoyed reading. The entries are well researched and written, informative and entertaining. You can't ask for more -'Francis Naumann

A revealing account of an artist whose enduring obsession with chance and coincidence shaped both his life and work, Marcel Duchamp illuminates one of the most important and influential figures in all of modern art. Drawing on the artist's own correspondence as well as interviews, Paris-based curator and art critic Caroline Cros explores the creative processes behind Duchamp's works—including his famous anti-sculptures, the'Readymades'; the enigmatic Grand Verre; and the seductive, disturbing Etant Donnés—as well as the often hostile reception he encountered in Paris and around the world. Cros also examines Duchamp's work after he abandoned his art at the age of thirty-six. Notoriously, Duchamp claimed that he would dedicate the remainder of his life to chess, but here we learn of his ongoing contributions to the art world, including his intense involvement in museums, foundations, and surrealist publications. With two major Dada exhibitions planned for 2006, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, MarcelDuchamp will be this year's ultimate guide to the master of the movment.

Octavio Paz conveying “his awareness of Duchamp as a great cautionary figure in our culture, warning us with jest and quiet scandals of the menacing encroachment of criticism, science and even art.” —New York Times Book Review

Duchamp est, avec Malevitch, l'archétype moderne d'un périple exigeant dans les formes et la pensée. Cette tâche prospective qu'ils s'assignent est aussi une exploration de leur présent foisonnant de découvertes venues d'aires de réflexion diverses ; parmi elles, les théories issues de la linguistique, de la sémiotique et de la sémiologie. Ce permanent passage entre le'possible'du langage et la'figuration'de l'art est l'objet de cette étude.

Ce livre touche un aspect mal connu de la pratique artistique de Marcel Duchamp : la musique. Si son influence dans l'art du XXe siècle est inconstestable, il est permis d'envisager sa responsabilité sinon sa participation à plusieurs orientations décisives prises par la musique au siècle dernier, notamment en termes de musique conceptuelle.

Fashion is a subject that has long been marginalized in art history and in museums. And yet, one of the most well-known artists in the twentieth century - Marcel Duchamp - created works that challenge the notion that fashion does not belong in the museum. As well, there is material evidence of his engagement with clothing as part of his oeuvre. This book reveals that clothing and dressing are significant themes that recur in Duchamp's life and his work – including his drawings, his fashioning of his body, his readymades, and in his curatorial gestures. In examining the items of clothing worn by Duchamp and the related traces of his wardrobe management, Duchamp is unmasked as a dandy. His waistcoat readymade series'Made to Measure'(1957-1961) is in fact a remarkable and deliberate effort to recalibrate the definition of the readymade to include clothing. With this little-studied readymade series, Duchamp established a precedent for sartorial art as a valid form of artistic expression. In considering the material traces of Duchamp's fashioning of his body and identity in his work and life, this book makes a highly original contribution to the understanding of Duchamp's work as well as the significance of the clothed body in the vanguard of Modernism. Ultimately, this book explains the relevance of fashion in the museum to modern audiences today.

The eye, designed to admire, can never really open wide enough.Curiously, while Marcel Duchamp judged eroticism to be a vital dynamic in his creation, his work has never really been viewed through that particular spy hole. The need to convene researchers from all over the world, each with their own lorgnette, spyglass or whatever, has made itself keenly felt. The challenge was to'lift the veil'- and these spectators eagerly accepted. They went through the work with a fine tooth comb (at the risk of coming away with no more than a few hairs), put their ideas to the test of the chocolate-grinder… and came up with reflections on DADA, Surrealism and its asides, the latest developments in art and life…More than enough to prove that Duchamp, Sélavy…