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English | 2022 | ISBN: 1643138618 | 255 pages | True EPUB | 9.59 MB
In 1913 Marcel Duchamp'sNude Descending a Staircaseexploded through the American art world. This is the story of how he followed the painting to New York two years later, enchanted the Arensberg salon, and-almost incidentally-changed art forever.
In 1915, a group of French artists fled war-torn Europe for New York. In the few months between their arrival-and America's entry into the war in April 1917-they pushed back the boundaries of the possible, in both life and art. The vortex of this transformation was the apartment at 33 West 67th Street, owned by Walter and Louise Arensberg, where artists and poets met nightly to talk, eat, drink, discuss each others' work, play chess, plan balls, organise magazines and exhibitions, and fall in and out of love. At the center of all this activity stood the mysterious figure of Marcel Duchamp, always approachable, always unreadable. His exhibit of a urinal, which he calledFountain, briefly...
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