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Brandon, Ruth, author.
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Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 -- Friends and associates.
Roché, Henri Pierre, 1879-1959.
Wood, Beatrice.
Artists -- France -- Biography.
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Spellbound by Marcel...
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Spellbound by Marcel : Duchamp, love, and art / Ruth Brandon.
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Brandon, Ruth, author.
New York : Pegasus Books, 2022.
Subjects
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 -- Friends and associates.
Roché, Henri Pierre, 1879-1959.
Wood, Beatrice.
Artists -- France -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781643138619 (hardcover) :
1643138618 (hardcover)
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xii, 241 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Contents:
Part one: Prewar -- Part two: Wartime -- Part three: Between continents -- Part four: Late fame.
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"In 1915, a group of French artists fled war-torn Europe for New York. In the few months between their arrival--and America's entry into the war in April 1917--they pushed back the boundaries of the possible, in both life and art. The vortex of this transformation was the apartment at 33 West 67th Street, owned by Walter and Louise Arensberg, where artists and poets met nightly to talk, eat, drink, discuss each others' work, play chess, plan balls, organise magazines and exhibitions, and fall in and out of love. At the center of all this activity stood the mysterious figure of Marcel Duchamp, always approachable, always unreadable. His exhibit of a urinal, which he called Fountain, briefly shocked the New York art world before falling, like its perpetrator, into obscurity. Many people (of both sexes) were in love with Duchamp. Henri-Pierre Rocȟ and Beatrice Wood were among them; they were also, briefly, and (for her) life-changingly, in love with each other. Both kept daily diaries, which give an intimate picture of the events of those years. Or rather two pictures--for the views they offer, including of their own love affair, are stunningly divergent. Spellbound by Marcel follows Duchamp, Rocȟ, and Beatrice as they traverse the twentieth century. Rocȟ became the author of Jules and Jim, made into a classic film by Fraṅois Truffaut. Beatrice became a celebrated ceramicist. Duchamp fell into chess-playing obscurity until, decades later, he became famous for a second time--as Fountain was elected the twentieth century's most influential artwork"--Book jacket flap.
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