Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare
Octavio Paz
The esteemed Nobel Prize-winning poet offers a portrait of Marcel Duchamp as a great cautionary figure in public culture, citing the philosopher's influential beliefs about spiritual freedom and the encroachment of criticism, science, and art in today's world.
“Marcel Duchamp has been known for his inactivity in the art world as much as for his activity. In Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare Octavio Paz sets up a duality between Duchamp’s modus operandi and that of Picasso: the silence of Duchamp set against the incessant production of Picasso. Paz pairs these two as the greatest artists of the 20th century, yet in all his writing there is very little actually stated about Picasso’s work, except to say what the work is not. Duchamp, then, is Paz’s real hero.”
-Art forumn review: https://www.artforum.com/columns/marcel-duchamp-appearance-stripped-bare-212401/
Seaver Books
First US paper bound edition, 1978
Softcover
14 x 20 cm
211 pages
Price on request
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Octavio Paz
The esteemed Nobel Prize-winning poet offers a portrait of Marcel Duchamp as a great cautionary figure in public culture, citing the philosopher's influential beliefs about spiritual freedom and the encroachment of criticism, science, and art in today's world.
“Marcel Duchamp has been known for his inactivity in the art world as much as for his activity. In Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare Octavio Paz sets up a duality between Duchamp’s modus operandi and that of Picasso: the silence of Duchamp set against the incessant production of Picasso. Paz pairs these two as the greatest artists of the 20th century, yet in all his writing there is very little actually stated about Picasso’s work, except to say what the work is not. Duchamp, then, is Paz’s real hero.”
-Art forumn review: https://www.artforum.com/columns/marcel-duchamp-appearance-stripped-bare-212401/
Seaver Books
First US paper bound edition, 1978
Softcover
14 x 20 cm
211 pages
Price on request
Enquire