Main Dressing and Undressing Duchamp
Dressing and Undressing Duchamp cover

Dressing and Undressing Duchamp

,
4.0 / 5.0
0 comments
Among the vast body of material on iconoclastic artist Marcel Duchamp, an aspect that is little-studied is his engagement with clothing. This book reveals that clothing and dressing are significant themes that recur in Duchamp’s life and his work – including his drawings, his fashioning of his body, his readymades, and in his curatorial gestures. In examining the items of clothing worn by Duchamp and the related traces of his wardrobe management, Duchamp is unmasked as a dandy. His waistcoat readymade series Made to Measure (1957-1961) is in fact a remarkable and deliberate effort to recalibrate the definition of the readymade to include clothing. With this little-studied readymade series, Duchamp established a precedent for sartorial art as a valid form of artistic expression.In considering the material traces of Duchamp’s fashioning of his body and identity in his work and life, this book makes a highly original contribution to the understanding of Duchamp’s work as well as the significance of the clothed body in the vanguard of Modernism.
Request Code : ZLIBIO4230791
Categories:
Year:
2022
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Language:
English
Pages:
224
ISBN 10:
135023611X
ISBN 13:
9781350236110
ISBN:
135023611X,9781350236110

Comments of this book

There are no comments yet.