The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp

by T.J. Demos

Book Overview

Exile as the dominant fact of Marcel Duchamp's life and artistic practice: how the "spirit of expatriation" and sense of dislocation infused the mobile objects and disjunctive spaces of Duchamp's readymades and experimental exhibition installations.

Marcel Duchamp was a famous expatriate, a wanderer, living and working in Paris, New York, and Buenos Aires and escaping from each in turn. But exile, argues T. J. Demos in this innovative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518112
• ISBN13: 9780262518116
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher