Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall
In August 1946, Marcel Duchamp spent five weeks in Switzerland, and stayed at the Hotel Bellevue (today, Le Baron Tavernier) near Chexbres, on Lake Geneva. It was here that he discovered the Forestay waterfall, which was to become the starting point for (and ultimately the landscape of) his enigmatic and final masterpiece, "Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage" ("Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas"). Now, for the first time, the full significance of the choice of this waterfall is explored. Among the contributors to this volume are Caroline Bachmann, Stefan Banz, Etienne Barilier, Lars Blunck, Ecke Bonk, Paul B. Franklin, Antje von Graevenitz, Dalia Judovitz, Michael Lüthy, Bernard Marcadé, Herbert Molderings, Adeena Mey, Stanislaus von Moos, Francis M. Naumann, Mark Nelson, Molly Nesbit, Dominique Radrizzani, Roman Signer, Michael R. Taylor, Hans Maria de Wolf and Philip Ursprung.
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Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall
In August 1946, Marcel Duchamp spent five weeks in Switzerland, and stayed at the Hotel Bellevue (today, Le Baron Tavernier) near Chexbres, on Lake Geneva. It was here that he discovered the Forestay waterfall, which was to become the starting point for (and ultimately the landscape of) his enigmatic and final masterpiece, "Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage" ("Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas"). Now, for the first time, the full significance of the choice of this waterfall is explored. Among the contributors to this volume are Caroline Bachmann, Stefan Banz, Etienne Barilier, Lars Blunck, Ecke Bonk, Paul B. Franklin, Antje von Graevenitz, Dalia Judovitz, Michael Lüthy, Bernard Marcadé, Herbert Molderings, Adeena Mey, Stanislaus von Moos, Francis M. Naumann, Mark Nelson, Molly Nesbit, Dominique Radrizzani, Roman Signer, Michael R. Taylor, Hans Maria de Wolf and Philip Ursprung.
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Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall

Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall

Overview

In August 1946, Marcel Duchamp spent five weeks in Switzerland, and stayed at the Hotel Bellevue (today, Le Baron Tavernier) near Chexbres, on Lake Geneva. It was here that he discovered the Forestay waterfall, which was to become the starting point for (and ultimately the landscape of) his enigmatic and final masterpiece, "Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage" ("Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas"). Now, for the first time, the full significance of the choice of this waterfall is explored. Among the contributors to this volume are Caroline Bachmann, Stefan Banz, Etienne Barilier, Lars Blunck, Ecke Bonk, Paul B. Franklin, Antje von Graevenitz, Dalia Judovitz, Michael Lüthy, Bernard Marcadé, Herbert Molderings, Adeena Mey, Stanislaus von Moos, Francis M. Naumann, Mark Nelson, Molly Nesbit, Dominique Radrizzani, Roman Signer, Michael R. Taylor, Hans Maria de Wolf and Philip Ursprung.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783037641569
Publisher: JRP Ringier
Publication date: 01/31/2011
Pages: 408
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Acknowledgments 14

Seven Photographs of the Forestay Waterfall Marcel Duchamp 16

The Waterfall - The Landscape

Paysage fautif Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall Stefan Banz 26

"The lake changes its dress every hour" Marcel Duchamp in Vevey Dominique Radrizzani 58

In the Beginning, There Was Mary Marcel Duchamp, Mary Reynolds, and the Landscape Backdrop of Étant donnés Paul B. Franklin 70

Landscape as Ironic Causality in Duchamp's Étant donnés Dalia Judovitz 86

Water Leaking on All Floors Bernard Marcadé 98

Étant Donnés

Resisting Courbet's Retinal Revolution Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés and the Erotic Legacy of Cubist Painting Michael R. Taylor 112

Étant donnés as a Form of Experience Michael Lüthy 132

Notre Dame des désirs Gynomorphism in Marcel Duchamp's Chat Ouvert Francis M. Naumann 146

Étant donnés, Chess Enigma? Étienne Barilier 158

Contextualization of Étant Donnés

Beyond Swiss Cheese and Bullet Holes - Part II And Some Other Elements in Duchamp's Notorious Endspiel, Étant donnés Hans Maria de Wolf 172

Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder Mark Nelson 190

The Hermetic Work Duchamp, Étant donnés, and Its Posterity Lars Blunck 208

Duchamp as a Scientist, Artifex, and Semiotic-Philosopher His Notes of the "Infra-mince" (1934/35-1945) Antje von Graevenitz 216

Looking on the Other Side of the Waterfall

The "Spiritualist of Woolworth" Philip Ursprung 234

Duchamp in the Eyes of Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson

The Green Ray Herbert Molderings 240

Marcel Duchamp's Lost Work of Art

The Missed Encounter with Le Corbusier Stanislaus von Moos 258

Drinking Black Coffee

The Hinge at the End of the Mind Molly Nesbit 278

Duchamp's Work in Progress

Concert - Intervention - Exhibitions

Plays Sonitus Errans after Marcel Duchamp's Musical Erratum, Salle Davel, Cully Andreas Glauser 298

Installation: Intervention in the Forestay Waterfall, Bellevue-Chexbres Roman Signer 300

50cc Eau de Forestay, 110gr Auer von Welsbach ... et quelques rayons cosmiques Ecke Bonk 304

Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Architect: Melanie Althaus

Cosmic Diagram Adeena Mey 306

On Ecke Bonk's Exhibition and Melanie Althaus's Architecture

I Want to Grasp Things with the Mind the Way the Penis is Grasped by the Vagina 320

Exhibition with Works and Documents by More Than Fifty Artists, Galerie Davel 14, Cully

Gradiva on the Trail Caroline Bachmann 324

On the Exhibition at Galerie Davel 14

Exhibited Works and Documents 343

Materials

The Forestay Waterfall, Bellevue-Chexbres, in Postcards 349

Hotel Bellevue, Bellevue near Chexbres, in Postcards 356

Hotel Bellevue, Chardonne, in Postcards 366

Excerpts from the Archive of Felix Kälin 371

Marcel Duchamp's Visits to Switzerland, 1946 and 1968 387

Étant donnés in Marcel Duchamp's Letters to Maria Martins 391

Biographies 394

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