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Author:
Ruth Brandon
Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Date:
March 1, 2022
In 1913 Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase exploded through the American art world. This is the story of how he followed the painting to New York two years later, enchanted the Arensberg salon, andâalmost incidentallyâchanged art forever.
What The Reviewers Say
A group biography of sorts, which charts, in sometimes gratuitous detail, the triangulated love affair between Duchamp, Wood and Roché, and the others who crossed their paths and their beds.
Brandon...takes an unusual approach to the famously enigmatic Marcel Duchamp by focusing on his relationships.
Brandon has woven a narrative that intermingles complex romantic entanglements with persistent artistic aspirations, giving readers a book that is one part 20th century cultural history, two parts gossipy soap opera.
A swirling tale.
