With The Great Hidden Inspirer, the fourth volume in the Poiesis series, Duchamp expert Michael R. Taylor, curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, investigates the role of Duchamp as the "secret mastermind" behind the decisive moments of 20th-century art history. Taylor reveals that it was Ducham[...]

The iconoclastic creations of Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) radically changed the 20th century art as well as our notion of it. Munich's role in this is worthy of note. Annoyed at the rejections of his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 by the Salon des Ind pendants, Duchamp traveled to Munich [...]

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[...]

This title offers a strikingly illustrated look at the hugely influential works, writings, and interviews of Marcel Duchamp. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) is one of the most famous and influential artists of the 20th century. Although often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, he avoid[...]