The Writings Of Marcel Duchamp

This collection brings together two essential interviews and two statements about Marcel Duchamp's art that underscore the serious side of the artist. But most of the book is made up of his experimental writings, which he called “Texticles”, the long and extraordinary notes he wrote for The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Eben (also known as The Large Glass), and the outrageous puns and alter‑ego he constructed for his female self, Rrose Sélavy (“Eros, c'est la vie” or “arouser la vie” — “drink it up”; “celebrate life”). These notes are basic for understanding one of the twentieth century's most provocative artists, a figure whose influence on the contemporary scene has never been stronger.