Duchamp's Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-In-General

by Thierry de Duve

A revisionist history of Duchamp's legacy and impact on modern art.

In 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that point on, the whole Western art world reconfigured itself as 'post-Duchamp'.

This book offers a reading of Duchamp's telegram...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789146984
• ISBN13: 9781789146981
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 2.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"