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Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall
Hardcover
$39.95
By Michael Taylor, Marcel Duchamp, Stefan Banz (Editor), Bernard Marcadé (Text by), Paul Franklin (Text by), Philip Ursprung (Text by), Francis Naumann (Text by), Herbert Molderings (Text by), Molly Nesbit, Dominique Radrizzani (Text by), Michael Lüthy (Text by), Dalia Judovitz (Text by)
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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 choic...