Marcel Duchamp's Manual of store Instructions Etant Donnes Hardcover Book Cubism Dada France Artist

Marcel Duchamp's Manual of Instructions

Hardcover: 76 store pages
Publisher: Yale University Press; Revised edition
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300149808
ISBN-13: 978-0300149807
Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 0.8 x 12 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds

Inside clean and excellent. Outside excellent. I only removed the outer band to photograph the inside - which is magnificent. Band is torn and creased, but still in tact.

Detailed, high quality facsimile edition of Duchamp's plannings for the Etant Donnés. Comprehensive info and pictures.

Out of print for a number of years, this facsimile of Marcel Duchamp's Manual of Instructions was prepared by the artist for the disassembly of Étant donnés in his New York studio and its reassembly at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. First published more than twenty years ago, the manual has had far-reaching ramifications for the study of Étant donnés and Duchamp. Illustrated with 116 black-and-white Polaroids taken by the artist and 35 pages of his handwritten notes and sketches, the revised edition includes a new essay by Michael R. Taylor on the pivotal importance of the manual to an understanding of Duchamp's artistic practice as well as the first English translation of the artist's text.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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