{"product_id":"salt-seller-the-writings-of-marcel-duchamp-hardcover","title":"Salt Seller: The Writings of Marcel Duchamp - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarcel Duchamp\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichel Sanouillet\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eElmer Peterson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNude Descending a Staircase\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the best known works of art in tihs century. It caused a sensation at the historic Armory Show of 1913, being damned by one critic as \"an explosion in a shingle factory.\" Yet the criticism in no way perturbed it imperturable creator, Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp's \"readymades\" (the urinal singed by R. Mutt and entitled \u003cem\u003eFountain\u003c\/em\u003e, the snow shovel entitled \u003cem\u003eIn Advance of the Broken Arm\u003c\/em\u003e, and other objects bought and exhibits as works of art) are by now familiar objecs of critical derision and delight. And Duchamp's influence has been pervasive throughout modern art, fosterin Neo-Dada, Op Art, Pop Art, and Conceptual Art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarcel Duchamp's major work, \u003cem\u003eThe Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even\u003c\/em\u003e (also known as \u003cem\u003eThe Large Glass\u003c\/em\u003e) was left in a state of \"definitive incompletion\" in 1923. The notes for this extradordinarywork form the largest part of SALT SELLER. Duchamp collected many of them for his Green Box in 1934, when their publication was immediately hailed by Andre Breton as a major intellectual event. The notes themselves will help the curious but mystified spectator of The Large Glass in no simple or straighforward way. They do, however, demonstrate wht an extraordinarily original process the making of \u003cem\u003eThe Bride Stripped Barde by Her Bachelors, Even\u003c\/em\u003e was. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuchamp's wit is nowhere in greater evidence than in the section \"Rrose Selavy \u0026amp; Co.\" Duchamp was photographed in women's apparel by Man Ray and created a \"readymade\" female alter-ego Rrose Selavy (\"Eros c'est la vie\" or \"arroser la vie\" - drink it up; celebrate life). Rrose printed a calling card and her company advertised -- \"For practical wear, a Rrose Selavy creation: The oblong cress, designed exclusively for ladies afflicted with hiccups.\" The company also had a service department which made \"...home deliveries: domestic mosquitoes (half stock.)\" The surrealists had proclaimed in the twenties that words were no longer playing around but had started making clove. This description seems to fit the sayings of Rrose Selavy who fashioned some of the most joyour and ingenious couplings and uncouplings in modern literautre.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the section \"Marcel Duchamp, Criticavit\", the more serious side of Duchamp is represented by two informative interviews and two important statements on art, \"The Creative Act\" and \"Apropos of Readymades.\" His more experimental writings are grouped under the title \"Texticles.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaken together these varied writings constitute a major document of modern art. Whether the reader sits back and enjoys the charms of Duchamp or studies and attempts to decipher his inner-most secrets, the reader will find SALT SELLAR a compendium of delight.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichel Souillet \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eDada a Paris\u003c\/em\u003e, was the Founder and has been the President of the International Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElmer Peterson\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eTristan Tzara\u003c\/em\u003e and was Professor of French at Colorado College.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50476381929720,"sku":"9780197641125","price":102.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/PYRDrCuCva9780197641125.webp?v=1788994226","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/salt-seller-the-writings-of-marcel-duchamp-hardcover","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}