Title: Alchemist of the avant-garde : the case of Marcel Duchamp /
Authors: Moffitt, John F. 1940-2008
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Duchamp, Marcel, Criticism and interpretation.; Duchamp, Marcel,; Duchamp, Marcel.; Alchemy Influence.; Beeldende kunsten.; Alchemie.; Kunstkritiek.; Alchimie.; Ready-made.; Alchemie.; Surrealismus.
Contents: An esoteric French adolescence for Duchamp: symbolist culture and occultism -- The invention of the modern alchemist-artist -- The cultural shaping of an artist-iconoclast: Duchamp in France, 1887-1915 -- Duchamp's first experiments in esoteric and alchemical art, 1910-1912 -- Duchamp in New York with esoteric patrons and the large glass, 1915-1923 -- Alchemical emblematics and the ready-mades, 1913-1923 -- The esoteric fourth dimension and laws of chance, 1895-1923 -- The circle closes, 1923-1968.