The World of Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968 (Art Ebook).pdf

Pdf / English / 1966 / 192 pages / 32 MB

Marcel Duchamp 1887 – 1968, was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Dadaism and conceptual art, although not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (like Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to put art back in the service of the mind.

Freakin completely kick ass awesome. After reading this, Marcel DuChamp is easily my favorite people of all time. This book gives you, not only a good look at DuChamp but, a comprehensive look at, the evolution of art from the turn of the century to the '70's and, the artists involved.

Zach Chasnoff