Marcel Duchamp: Étant Donnés (paperback)

$35.00 at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Michael R. Taylor (Author) with essays by Andrew Lins, Melissa S. Meighan, and Beth A. Price, Ken Sutherland, Scott Homolka, and Elena Torok In his early thirties, Marcel Duchamp convinced everyone that he had abandoned making art in favor of playing chess. But from 1946 to 1966, he was secretly at work in his studio on West Fourteenth Street in New York City. There he produced his final masterpiece: Étant donnés: 1º la chute d’eau, 2º le gaz dՎclairage, composed of a battered wood door through which one…