03 Feb 2014

KMD – Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp: New Publications

Jeff Wall, Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés
English|German|French, 152 pages, 20 Euro; ISBN 978-3-86984-500-5 (out now)

Jeff Wall's extraordinary lecture on Marcel Duchamp's great legacy Étant donnés, presented at the First Annual Anne d'Harnoncourt Memorial Symposium, September 11, 2009, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Published for the first time, in a trilingual edition (English-German-French). Introduction by Michael R. Taylor, Director, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Afterword by Stefan Banz.

Stefan Banz, Marcel Duchamp: Pharmacie
German|English, 308 pages, 20 Euro; ISBN 978-3-86984-465-7 (out now)

This is the first book ever to focus exclusively on Marcel Duchamp's Pharmacie, the first rectified readymade in art history. The work has been largely neglected in the Duchamp literature, although it takes a key position in his radical artistic concept. Stefan Banz describes the emergence of the work, and compares the conceptual and optical differences between the three existing versions from the years 1914, 1937, and 1945. In addition, he explores the significance of the term rectified readymade and discusses the philosophical dimension of this succinct, enigmatic, and cryptic work.

Lars Blunck, Marcel Duchamp: Porte-bouteille
German|English, 132 pages, 20 Euro; ISBN 978-3-86984-062-8 (March 2014)

Duchamp's famous Bottle Rack was to be a work without art, something made without 'artistic handiwork.' Taking a fresh look, Lars Blunck shows how strongly Duchamp, using irony and playing with words, turned against the painterly handiwork of his time—and remained committed to it by opposing painting with a 'non-artistic handiwork': a handiwork after handiwork.