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6) Duchamp
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This volume presents a survey of French artist Marcel Duchamp's (1887-1968) career documents; it includes more than 60 reproductions of his work and informative text discussing his preeminent role in the history of twentieth-century art. One of the most controversial and enigmatic artists of the twentieth century, Duchamp fundamentally altered our way of looking at and understanding art. Associated in his early years with several avant-garde groups,...
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Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase is, with Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon, an essential step in the 20th-century artistic revolution. But in spite of its worldwide reputation, the painting has never been commented on in-depth. This program is the first to completely dedicate itself to Duchamp's masterpiece. It asks what exactly the painting represents, and to what extent it is possible to analyze the work and dissect its symbolism.
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An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short history of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of "portable literature." In this rollicking, intellectually playful book, the society's members include writers and artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Witold Gombrowicz, Federico García Lorca, Man Ray, and Georgia O'Keeffe. The Shandies meet in apartments, hotels, and cafes all over Europe to discuss what great literature...
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"Janos Bolyai (1802-1860) was a mathematician who changed our fundamental ideas about space. As a teenager he started to explore a set of nettlesome geometrical problems, including Euclid's parallel postulate, and in 1832 he published a brilliant twenty-four-page paper that shook the foundations of the two-thousand-year-old tradition of Euclidean geometry. Bolyai's "Appendix" (published as just that - an appendix to a much longer mathematical work...
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The poet and visual artist Mina Loy (1882-1966) has long had an underground reputation as an exemplary avant-gardist. Born in London of mixed Jewish and English parentage, and a much photographed beauty, she moved in the pivotal circles of international modernism - in Florence as Gertrude Stein's friend and Marinetti's lover; in New York as Marcel Duchamp's co-conspirator and Djuna Barnes's confidante; in Mexico with her greatest love, the notorious...
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"The Art of Modernism is an in-depth analysis of the period from the 1790s to the 1990s. It follows the parallel developments in science, philosophy, politics, and social history of the twentieth century, underlining the interconnecting facets in the various disciplines." "The Art of Modernism not only includes extensive research on styles and movements from the nineteenth century to the present day, but also covers details on the life and works of...
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"'Around the Day in Eighty Worlds' blends sixty-two writings--short stories, personal reminiscences, essays, and poems about subjects as varied as French Surrealism, nineteenth-century science-fiction and horror stories, American jazz, and South American literature--with lively photographs and illustrations chosen by the author to complement the rich verbal imagery."--Pg. [4] of cover.
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