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Duchamp's Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General
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A revisionist history of Duchamp’s legacy and impact on modern art.
In 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that point on, the whole Western art world reconfigured itself as 'postDuchamp'.
This book offers a reading of Duchamp's telegram that sheds new light on its first reception, corrects some histo...
In 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that point on, the whole Western art world reconfigured itself as 'postDuchamp'.
This book offers a reading of Duchamp's telegram that sheds new light on its first reception, corrects some histo...
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