{"product_id":"9781628723755","title":"Marcel Duchamp : Appearance Stripped Bare","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMarcel Duchamp\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Octavio Paz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOctavio Paz claims in this essential work that the two painters who had the greatest influence on the twentieth century were Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. If that conjunction surprises at first, Paz makes a convincing case with his analysis and by contrasting the two artists. “I have linked their two names,” he writes, “because it seems to me that each of them has in his own way succeeded in defining our age: the former by what he affirms; the latter by what he negates, by his explorations.” Considering Duchamp’s career and writings from his scandalous \u003ci\u003eNude Descending a Staircase\u003c\/i\u003e in 1913 to his subsequent investigations, from his \u003ci\u003eLarge Glass\u003c\/i\u003e and kinetic art to the Readymades and “physiques amusantes” (“comic calculations”), Paz offers a highly personal assessment, exploring the apparent contradictions and seeming enigmas with the insight and lucidity that characterized all his writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen this book was first published, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e called it an “extraordinary and indispensable book” and said: “Paz may have come closer to Duchamp’s essence as a philosopher of spiritual freedom than any critic to date.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“There are few studies so good on any artist. . . . Deft and dense with intelligence and . . . exciting to read.” —\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Probes deeply into Duchamp’s relation to Eastern and Western Cultures.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“When Paz finishes with Duchamp, one feels that every aspect of the artist’s intention has been sympathetically examined.” —\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There are few studies so good on any artist. . . . Deft and dense with intelligence and . . . exciting to read.” —\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Probes deeply into Duchamp’s relation to Eastern and Western Cultures.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“When Paz finishes with Duchamp, one feels that every aspect of the artist’s intention has been sympathetically examined.” —\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781628723755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Arcade","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40953313820878,"sku":"9781628723755","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_af2b57b3-6c48-4b6e-82a1-3c0d6a40937f.jpg?v=1646253614","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781628723755","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}