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‘The most singular man alive, André Breton called him, ‘as well as the
most
elusive, the most
deceptive’.
Recently the enigmatic
Marcel
Duchamp
influential
first
(1887-1968)
has been
claimed
Picasso.
Tomkins
as the century’s
most
artist, outstripping even
biography,
Calvin
In this vivid study, the
explores
Duchamp’s
full-scale
haunting and potent art, setting his achievement within the context of
his life and milieu.
The
son
of a Normandy
lawyer, Duchamp
followed
his two
artist
brothers to Paris in the late 1890s. Tomkins traces his connections with the
great movements
of his lifetime,
beginning
with
his rejection
of
Impressionism and involvement with Cubism, and his later flirtations with
Dadaism and Surrealism. Endlessly courted, but refusing to belong to any
‘group’, Duchamp remained determined to find an art of his own, one that
appealed to the intellect as well as the eye and made the viewer a partici-
pant in the creative process. Once his fame was established, he refused to
paint to order; for fifteen years he concentrated on playing chess, and for
two decades worked secretly on his final great ‘peepshow’ construction.
Duchamp’s easy charm and ironic wit — so evident in his ‘readymades’
and his moustachioed Mona Lisa — made him irresistible to both men
and women. This book is alive with personalities — Apollinaire, Picabia
and Picasso; Man Ray, Brancusi and Dali; Andre Breton and Erik Satie
— and rich in stories and incidents. But in his private life, as in art,
Duchamp remained elusive. An ‘archetypal Frenchman’, he made New
York his home. Befriended by millionaires, he lived simply as a hermit.
Renowned for his success with women, he stayed coolly uncommitted
until later in life.
Calvin Tomkins first met Duchamp in the 1960s. Drawing on recent
research and scholarship as well as interviews, diaries and letters, he
brilliantly evokes the artist’s complexity and charismatic appeal. He
combines this with clear accounts of Duchamp’s ideas, from his fascina-
tion with mathematics and motion to his belief in the ‘indifference’ of
art, and with considered readings of the work, from the early paintings
and cartoons to major achievements like The Bride Stripped Bare by Her
Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass). The result is the definitive portrait of a
great artist and the culture that surrounded him.
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