By Juan Antonio Ramirez
Duchamp's nice preoccupations have been the character of clinical fact and a sense for romance with its traditional restrict, dying. His works all communicate of eroticism in a fashion that pushes the socially applicable to its outer limits. Juan Antonio Ramirez addresses such questions because the which means of the artist's ground-breaking ready-mades and his well-known install Etant donnés; his passionate essay reproduces all of Duchamp's very important works, as well as a variety of formerly unpublished visible resources. Duchamp: Love and dying, even is a seminal monograph for knowing this important determine of contemporary art.
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