Duchamp: A Biography by Calvin Tomkins

Duchamp: A Biography

Calvin Tomkins

560 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction art biography informative reflective medium-paced

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Marcel Duchamp, born into an artistic middle-class French family in 1887, first gained recognition as an artist in 1913 when he submitted his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 to the Armory Show in New York. The newspapers latched onto i...

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