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Book SynopsisMarcel Duchamp, one of this century''s pioneer artists, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with impressionism into t field with impressionism into t field where language, thought and vision act upon one another, There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art...In the 1920s Duchamp gave up, quit painting. He allowed, perhaps encouraged, the attendant mythology. One thought of his decision, his willing this stopping. Yet on one occasion, he said it was not like that. He spoke of breaking a leg. ''You don''t mean to do it,'' he said.The Large Glass. A greenhouse for his intuition. Erotic machinery, the Bride, held in a see-through cage,''a Hilarious Picture.'' Its cross references of sight and thought, the changing focus of the eyes and mind, give fresh sense to the time and space we occupy, negate any concern with art as
Table of Contents* Introduction by Robert Motherwell * Eight Years of Swimming Lessons * A Window onto Something Else * Through the Large Glass * I Like Breathing Better than Working * I Live the Life of a Waiter * Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), An Appreciation by Jasper Johns
