Marcel Duchamp, The Work Volumes I to IV Publisher: Georges Pompidou. Musee National d'Art Moderne, 1977 Multi volume catalogue for “Marcel Duchamp” Exhibition, CNAC-Centre Pompidou, January 31 to May 2, 1977. First Edition 4 Softcover Volumes in Publisher's Original Green Flocked Slipcase Each volume protected with mylar covers French text Each volume illustrated in black and white. 210 x 260mm
Volume I: Biography/Chronology. 97 pages Volume II: Catalog raisonné, sources and bibliography. 208 pages Volume III: Primer/Critical Approaches. 208 pages Volume IV: Victor/Marcel Duchamp. 99 pages Each volume with publisher’s dust jacket titled on spine and on the first cover
Condition Green Flocked Slipcase with rubbing, loss & scuffing; slipcase cracked on edges.Each volume never read or used, each volume protected with mylar covers.Slight fading individual softcover spines due to age. Stray pin head mark edge of one volume.
Marcel Duchamp experienced the birth of Cubism and Futurism. He participated in Dadaism and Surrealism. He laid down the basic ideas of conceptual art and almost all movements of the first three-quarters of the 20th century. This catalog is almost a "Duchamp ready-made", a collector's item as well as a source of information on the brilliant chess player-artist-jack of all trades who awakened the avant-garde in the United States.
