First published to great acclaim in 1996, "New Yorker" writer and art critic Calvin Tomkins' biography of the influential artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) has been out of print for many years. Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is publishing a new and revised edition of the landmark biography[...]

While much has been written on Marcel Duchamp - one of the twentieth century's most beguiling artists - the subject of his flirtation with architecture seems to have been largely overlooked. Yet, in the carefully arranged plans and sections organising the blueprint of desire in the Large Glass, his [...]

One of the great thinkers of the twentieth century has some of his finest art, culture and literary criticism collected here for the first time. A Nobel laureate, Octavio Paz s lucid poetry has been translated by such luminaries as Mark Strand, Elizabeth Bishop, and Samuel Beckett, while his work as[...]

Following Marcel Duchamp's death in 1968, the Philadelphia Museum of Art stunned the art world by unveiling a project on which he had been working secretly for twenty years, long after he had supposedly given up art for chess. Installed by the museum curators with the assistance of Duchamp's widow T[...]

A must for Duchamp devotees everywhere! This little introduction to the life and works of Marcel Duchamp was originally published to accompany a Duchamp retrospective at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Modelled on a children?s book it contains 12 dead-pan full-page colour illustrations of events in D[...]

Eroticism, science and humor collide in the work of these two close friendsDali/Duchamp takes a detailed look at the little-explored relationship between two of the 20th century's most famous artists. The two might seem like polar opposites at first glance--Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), the father of [...]

An enigma to art historians and a great source of inspiration to other artists Someone else may have invented the wheel, but Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) invented the ready-made. A bottle dryer may be a bottle dryer, but signed by Duchamp it is also one of the major works of 20th century art. Ducham[...]

Readymade man Changing the course of 20th-century art 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 establishme[...]

In 1945, Marcel Duchamp published a photographic self-portrait in the American magazine "View" which depicted him--according to the caption--"at the age of 85." In reality he was, at the time, only 58 years old. In other words, the camera was being used as a "time machine," but not, as customary, to[...]

In this extended, illustrated essay, Swiss artist and author Stefan Banz (born 1961) describes Marcel Duchamp's discovery of the Forestay Waterfall near Chexbres, Switzerland, in the summer of 1946, and how it became the starting point for his famous final masterpiece, "Etant Donnes." Trilingual (Fr[...]