- Duchamp, Marcel
- (7/28/1887 Blainville-10/2/ 1968 Neuilly-sur-Seine) (France / USA)Painter, sculptor, and writer. From a family of artists, studied at the Academie Julian in Paris. A major figure in early 20th century art, especially influential as proponent of Dadaism, his work helped transformed traditional notions of art.Reproductions: Etants donnes le gaz d'eclairage et la chute d'eau; 1948-1949; Sommer, 1981: p. 9 . Selected details after Courbet; c1968; Wallace 2007: p. 196 . Selected details after Cranach and Relache; c1967; Wallace 2007: p. 197 [C]. Selected details after Ingres; c1968; Wallace 2007: p. 197 [C]. Selected details after Rodin; c1968; Wallace 2007: p. 196 [C].[b]Source: Craig Adcock, "Duchamp's eroticism: a mathematical analysis," Dada/Surrealism 16 (1987): pp. 149-167; George Bauer and Guy Le Gaufey, Erra tu m': erratique erotique de Marcel Duchamp (Paris: EPEL, 1999), 52 p., ill.; Benezit, vol. 4: pp. 1241-1245; N. Calas, "Duchamp's last work," Arts Magazine 48, 1 (September-October 1973): pp. 46-47; J. Crary, "Marcel Duchamp's The passage from virgin to bride," Arts Magazine 51, 5 (January 1977): pp. 96-99; Marc Decimo, Marcel Duchamp and eroticism (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007), 300 p., ill.; DoA vol. 9: pp. 354-360; K. von Maur, "Marcel Duchamp 'Fenetrier' uberlegungen zu einer Newerwerbung der Staatsgalerie," Jahrbuch der Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Baden-Wurttenburg 18 (1981): pp. 99104; P. Muray, "La religion sexuelle de Marcel Duchamp," ArtPress 84 (September 1984): pp. 4-7; Vollmer I 1953: p. 599.
Dictionary of erotic artists: painters, sculptors, printmakers, graphic designers and illustrators. Eugene C. Burt.