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Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) was active/lived in New York, California / France.  Marcel Duchamp is known for Dada, avant-garde, cubism, assemblage.

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Marcel Duchamp, born in Blainville, France, became a painter and sculptor who was part of the early 20th-century Dada movement that blurred the boundaries between these two aspects of fine art. In league with Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Hans Arp, Man Ray, and Kurt Schwitters, Duchamp held to the Dada credo that "everything the artist spits out is art." (Mayer 105)

Duchamp made his first big impression in the American art scene with his entry of Nude Descending the Staircase at the 1913 Armory Show in New York. This event was the first organized exhibition in the United States that included avant-garde artwork from Europe, and the biggest French names were Picasso and Braque. However, Duchamp and his artist brothers, Jacques Villon, and Raymond Duchamp-Villon received the most advance publicity of the French entries, because the press built them up "as a family of avant-garde artists; pictures of them in their garden at Puteaux were the only photographs of contemporary Eur   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4515 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Marcel Duchamp

   Publications  Book References:  174
Magazine References:  40

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40 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Marcel Duchamp
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Duchampiana: The Decollation of Saint Marcel October 2006 Nodelman, Sheldon Yes
Art in America Marcel Duchamp Curates Dada June 2006 Janis, Carroll Yes
Art & Antiques Font of Inspiration September 2005 Perlman, Bennard B Yes
Art & Auction Gallic Gumption December 2004 Melikian, Souren Yes
ARTFORUM Just Pathetic: Michael Wilson on So October 2004 Wilson, Michael Yes
Art & Auction the surrealist parade September 2004 Nolan, Cathy Yes
Art & Auction flash point September 2004 Rosenthal, Norman No
Art in America Front Page April 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk February 2004 Editor, ARTtalk Yes
ARTnews The Most Wanted Works of Art November 2003 Thomas, Kelly Devine Yes
ARTnews The Odd Couple October 2003 Greben, Deidre Stein Yes
Art in America Money Is No Object March 2003 Naumann, Francis M Yes
Art in America Disguise and Display March 2003 Nodelman, Sheldon No
Southwest Art Art Events-New Mexico January 2003 Editors, Southwest Art Yes
ARTnews Defining Moments November 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews How are Critics Spoke November 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Reviews September 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art & Auction Spring Sales Preview June 2002 Tully, Judd Yes
Art in America The Family of Stieglitz September 2001 Weinberg, Jonathan Yes
ARTnews Reviews June 2001 Editors, Art News Yes
Art in America Marcel & Maria April 2001 Naumann, Francis M. Yes
ARTnews Underrated/Overrated December 2000 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art & Antiques Museum Scene November 2000 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
Art in America Letters April 2000 Editors, Art in America No
Art in America Review of Exhibitions April 2000 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Duchamp's Erotic Souvenir February 2000 Naumann, Francis Yes
Art in America Review of Books January 2000 Editors, Art in America No
ARTnews Reviews December 1999 Editors Yes
Art & Auction The Contemporary Sales November 1999 Tully, Judd Yes
ARTnews The Envelope Please September 1999 Dorfman, John Yes
ARTnews The ARTNews 200 August 1999 Esterow, Milton Yes
ARTnews The Century's 25 Most Influential May 1999 Editors, ARTNews No
American Art Review Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp April 1999 Yes
Art in America Review of Books January 1998 Naumann, Francis M No
Art in America The New York Pre-School June 1997 Vetrocq, Marica Yes
Art & Auction Book Report December 1996 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
ARTnews SPOTLIGHT June 1995 Rowlands, Penelope Yes
ARTnews Vasari Diary April 1995 Editors, Art News Yes
ARTnews Tom Patchett: Beverly Hillbilly February 1995 Clothier, Peter Yes
ARTFORUM Duchamp/His Common Sense October 1994 Nesbitt, Molly No
174 Book References for Marcel Duchamp
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
360 Yes
2016 Pollack, Deborah C. Palm Beach Visual Arts 200 Yes
2014 Tomkins, Calfirn Duchamp: A Biography 560 Yes
2012 Kennedy, Garry Neill The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978 455 Yes
2006 Scott, Kitty et al Art Metropole: The Top 100 (National Gallery of Canada)
(Exhibition catalog)
137 No
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro) Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 246 Yes
2004 Dearborn, Mary Peggy Guggenheim: Mistress of Modernism 448 No
2003 Graham, Lanier Duchamp & Androgyny: Art, Gender, and Metaphysics 88 Yes
2002 Basel, Musee Jean Tinguely Marcel Duchamp 232 No
2002 Marquis, Alice Goldfarb Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare 400 No
2002 Mundy, Jennifer (Ed) Surrealism: Desire Unbound 352 Yes
2001 Byatt, A.S. (foreward) Writers on Artists 352 Yes
2001 Kachur, Lewis Displaying the Marvelous Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist Exhibitio 259 No
2000 Naumann, F and Obalk, H. , ed Affectionately, Marcel: The Selected Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp 448 No
1999 Marcel Duchamp: In the Infinitive- A typotranslation by Richard Hamilt 132 No
1999 Bann, Stephen, et al Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s 279 No
1999 Davidson, Susan; Lynda Hartigan, Ann Temkin, Walter Hopps, et. all Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp...Resonance 343 Yes
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Holubizky, Ihor, David Moos and Joseph R. Wolin TRANSlinear (McMaster Museum of Art) 32 Yes
1999 Naumann, Francis M Marcel DuChamp The Art of Making Art 336 No
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1998 Henderson, Linda Dalrymple Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology 516 Yes
1997 Agee, William C Modern American Painting 1910-194 Toward A New Perspective
(Exhibition catalog)
24 No
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1997 Madoff, Steven Henry (editor) Pop Art A Critical History 420 Yes
1997 Rowell, Margit Objects of Desire The Modern Still Life
(Exhibition catalog)
232 Yes
1997 Tesch, Jurgen/E Hollmann Icons of Art The 20th Century 216 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Dawtry, Liz (others) Investigating Modern Art 185 Yes
1996 Deitch, Jeffrey The Dakis Joannou Collection 302 Yes
1996 Karlstrom, Paul J (editor) On the Edge of America California Modernist Art, 1900-1950 308 Yes
1996 Naumann, Francis/Beth Venn Making Mischief Dada Invades New York
(Exhibition catalog)
304 Yes
1996 Schwarz, Arturo The Complete Work Of Marcel Duchamp 1000 Yes
1996 Wood, James N/T Edelstein The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture 160 Yes
1995 Craig-Martin, Michael Drawing the Line Reappraising Drawing Past and Present
(Exhibition catalog)
108 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day 960 Yes
1995 Shell, Marc Art & Money (University of Chicago) 230 Yes
1995 Tashjian, Dickran A Boatload of Madmen Surrealism and American Avant-Garde 1920-1950 424 No
1994 Altshuler, Bruce The Avant-Garde in Exhibition New Art in the 20th Century
(Exhibition catalog)
288 Yes
1994 Morgan, Robert C Conceptual Art An American Perspective 198 No
1994 Naumann, Francis M New York Dada 1915-23 255 Yes
1994 Stavitsky, Gail; Ellen Handy, Miles Orvell et all Precisionism in America 1915-1941 Reordering Reality
(Exhibition catalog)
160 Yes
1993 Joachimides, Christos (others) American Art in the 20th Century Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993
(Exhibition catalog)
490 Yes
1993 Kostelanetz, Richard Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes 246 No
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1993 Weinberg, Jonathan Speaking for Vice Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth etc 260 Yes
1992 Kurtz, Bruce D Contemporary Art 1965-1990 256 Yes
1991 Clearwater, Bonnie (others) West Coast Duchamp 128 No
1991 Lucic, Karen Charles Sheeler and the Cult of the Machine 167 Yes
1991 Murken, Axel/Christa Murken Von der Avantgarde bis zur Postmoderne/die Malerei des 20 Jahrhunderts 358 Yes
1991 Watson, Steven Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde 439 Yes
1991 Wexner Center, Ohio State U Breakthroughs Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America 1950-1990 310 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Varnedoe, Kirk/Adam Gopnik High and Low Modern Art/Popular Culture
(Exhibition catalog)
460 Yes
1989 Block, Ursula and Michael Glasmeier Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks 278 Yes
1989 D'Harnoncourt, Anne, K McShine Marcel Duchamp 341 Yes
1989 Rotzler, Willy Constructive Concepts:A History Constructive Art from Cubism to the Present 332 Yes
1989 Sparks, Esther Universal Limited Art Editions History and Catalogue/the 1st 25 Years 552 Yes
1988 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Painting 418 Yes
1988 Sandler, Irving American Art of the 1960s 412 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Pincus-Witten, Robert Postminimalism into Maximalism American Art 1966-1986 429 No
1986 Bois, Yve-Alain Endgame Reference & Simulation/Painting & Sculpture 115 Yes
1986 Delehanty, Suzanne The Window in Twentieth Century A
(Exhibition catalog)
105 Yes
1986 Newman, Michael/Mark Francis The Mirror and the Lamp An Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
48 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art of the 1930s The Age of Anxiety 264 Yes
1985 Siegel, Jeanne Artwords Discourse on the 60s and 70s 235 No
1985 Wood, Beatrice I Shock Myself The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood 181 No
1984 Barnett, Vivian Endicott 100 Works by Modern Masters From the Guggenheim Museum 211 Yes
1984 Chicago, Museum Contemporary Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Selections from Permanent Collection 164 Yes
1984 Lucie-Smith, Edward Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition 288 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Naumann, Francis M Mary and William Sisler Collectio
(Exhibition catalog)
324 Yes
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1984 Pincus-Witten, Robert Eye to Eye Twenty Years of Art Criticism 232 No
1983 Smith Kramer Art Connections American Works on Paper 100 Years of American Art History
(Exhibition catalog)
113 Yes
1982 Faison, S Lane Jr The Art Museums of New England 490 No
1982 Tsujimoto, Karen Images of America Precisionist Painting and Photography
(Exhibition catalog)
248 Yes
1981 Canaday, John Mainstreams of Modern Art (2nd Edition) 484 Yes
1981 Lambert, Rosemary The Twentieth Century 90 Yes
1981 Myers, John Bernard Tracking the Marvelous A Life in the New York Art World 285 No
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Smith, Alistair (intro) Larousse Dictionary of Painters (Americans included in world listing) 467 Yes
1980 Barnett, Vivian Endicott The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980 526 Yes
1980 Castleman, Riva Printed Art: A View of Two Decades 144 Yes
1979 Agee, William/Barbara Rose Patrick Henry Bruce American Modernist 227 Yes
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Guggenheim, Peggy Out of this Century Confessions of an Art Adict 396 Yes
1979 Henning, Edward B The Spirit of Surrealism
(Exhibition catalog)
186 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Lieberman, William S Art of the Twenties
(Exhibition catalog)
142 No
1979 Perlman, Bennard B The Immortal Eight American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show 224 Yes
1979 Taylor, Joshua C The Fine Arts in America 264 No
1978 Daniels, Florence Why Art? A Guide to Viewing Contemporary American Art 222 No
1978 Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall Art About Art 176 Yes
1978 Sandler, Irving The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties 366 Yes
1978 Waldman, Diane Mark Rothko, 1903-1970 A Retrospective
(Exhibition catalog)
296 Yes
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1977 Homer, William Innes Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde 335 No
1977 Sweeney, J Gray Themes in American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)
220 Yes
1976 Armstrong, Tom 200 Years of American Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)
336 Yes
1976 Block, Rene SoHo, New York Downtown Mahhattan/Berliner Festwochen
(Exhibition catalog)
431 No
1976 Johnson, Ellen H Modern Art and the Object A Century of Changing Values 240 No
1976 McCabe, Cynthia Jaffee The Golden Door Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976 432 Yes
1976 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Twentieth Century American Drawin Three Avant-Garde Generations
(Exhibition catalog)
125 Yes
1975 Battcock, Gregory (editor) Super Realism: A Critical Anthology 322 Yes
1975 Cone, Michele The Roots and Routes of Art in the 20th Century 252 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1975 Rosenberg, Harold Art on the Edge Creators and Situations 303 No
1975 Wasserman, Emily The American Scene: Early Twentieth Century (Lamplight Collection of American Art) 91 Yes
1975 Wolfram, Eddie History of Collage An Anthology of Collage, Assemblage & Event Sructures 192 Yes
1974 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures 80 No
1974 Mogelon, Alex; Norman Laliberte Art in Boxes 240 Yes
1974 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Sculpture 310 Yes
1974 Richardson, Tony/Nikos Stangos Concepts of Modern Art 355 No
1973 Johnson, Charlotte Buel Contemporary Art Exploring It's Roots and Development 96 Yes
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1972 Barr, Alfred/ W Rubin Three Generations of 20th Century Art Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection, MOMA 231 Yes
1972 Heyer, George S Jr Not So Long Ago Art of the 1920s in Europe & America
(Exhibition catalog)
95 Yes
1972 Karpel, Bernard/Walt Kuhn The Armory Show International Exhibition of Art 1913
(Exhibition catalog)
286 No
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1970 Alexandrian, Sarane Surrealist Art 256 Yes
1970 Brown, Milton W American Painting From the Armory Show to the Depression 244 No
1969 Janis, Sidney Abstract & Surrealist Art in America 146 No
1969 Schug, Albert Art of the Twentieth Century 264 Yes
1969 Weston, Neville The Reach of Modern Art A Concise History 240 No
1968 Battcock, Gregory (editor) Minimal Art A Critical Anthology 448 No
1968 Coplans, John Serial Imagery
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
1968 Rose, Barbara Readings in American Art Since 1900 A Documentary Survey 270 No
1968 Rubin, William S Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage (Museum of Modern Art)
(Exhibition catalog)
252 No
1967 Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques 342 No
1967 Mulas, Ugo/Alan Solomon New York/The New York Art Scene 341 No
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1966 Henning, Edward B Fifty Years of Modern Art 1916-19
(Exhibition catalog)
209 Yes
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1966 Lippard, Lucy R Pop Art 216 Yes
1966 Tomkins, Calvin The World of Marcel Duchamp 192 Yes
1966 White, Gabriel/R Hamilton Duchamp The Almost Complete Works
(Exhibition catalog)
168 Yes
1965 Kuh, Katherine Break Up The Core of Modern Art 136 Yes
1964 Johnson, Una E 20th Century Drawings Part I:1900-1940/Part II 1940 to the Present 284 Yes
1964 Rosenberg, Harold The Anxious Object Art Today and Its Audience 272 No
1963 Brown, Milton W The Story of the Armory Show
(Exhibition catalog)
320 No
1963 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard 20th Century Master Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)
104 No
1963 Freedgood, Lillian Great Artists of America 254 Yes
1963 Goodrich, Lloyd Pioneers of Modern Art in America Decade of the Armory Show, 1910-1920 94 Yes
1963 Whitney Museum The Decade of the Armory Show New Directions in American Art 1910-1920
(Exhibition catalog)
79 Yes
1962 Kuh, Katherine The Artist's Voice: Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists 248 Yes
1961 Hofer, Philip The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 In Western Europe and the United States
(Exhibition catalog)
232 Yes
1961 Rosenblum, Robert Cubism and Twentieth Century Art 328 Yes
1961 Seitz, William C The Art of Assemblage
(Exhibition catalog)
176 Yes
1960 Read, Herbert Art Now An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting 326 Yes
1958 Cheney, Sheldon The Story of Modern Art 723 Yes
1958 Saarinen, Aline B. The Proud Possessors: The lives, times and tastes of some adventurous American art collector 423 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Barr, Alfred H Jr Masters of Modern Art 239 Yes
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1942 Guggenheim, Peggy Art of this Century 1910-1942 156 No
1939 Museum of Modern Art Art in Our Time Exhibition, Tenth Anniversary MoMA
(Exhibition catalog)
320 No
1934 Barr, Alfred Jr. (Essay); A Conger Goodyear (Intro) Modern Works of Art: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Exhibition catalog)
160 No
1933 Bulliet, C J Art Masterpieces of the 1933 World's Fair The Art Institute of Chicago 170 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
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