Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp

by Pierre Cabanne

Book Overview

With an introduction by Robert Motherwell and an appreciation by Jasper Johns

"Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneer artists, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306803038
• ISBN13: 9780306803031
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Marcel Duchamp interviewed late in life.

This interview with Marcel Duchamp by Pierre Cabanne provides clarity to the myth that surrounds Duchamp and his non art. Duchamp gave the interview about 2 years before his death. He answers directly and in context the meaning of his work and non work. Others books attempt to tell us not only what his production means but try to tell us what his words mean as well. This books makes clear that Duchamp did not like the art world (although he used it to his advantage), he did not like art that appealed to the eye, he did not make art, he amused himself making objects and he played games. Its an honest interview and needs no interpreters. You can understand the valve of this mans ideas and what they mean to current conceptual art. Or is it conceptual non art.