Marcel Duchamp at the Age of 85: An Incunabulum of Conceptual Photography - Couverture souple

Kiesler, Friedrich; Bogner, Dieter; Molderings, Herbert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3863353323 ISBN 13 : 9783863353322

Editeur : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2013

Synopsis

In 1945, Marcel Duchamp published a photographic self-portrait in the American magazine View which depicted him--according to the caption--"at the age of 85." In reality he was, at the time, only 58 years old. In other words, the camera was being used as a "time machine," but not, as customary, to capture a present moment, but rather to look into the future. Until now, the circumstances surrounding this early instance of the "staged photograph" were unknown. This book includes a recently discovered script by Friedrich Kiesler, published here for the first time, in which Kiesler describes in full detail how he assisted his friend Duchamp in styling himself as a senile artist-philosopher for the lens of New York photographer Percy Rainford. The well-known Duchamp expert Herbert Molderings interprets Duchamp's self-portrait as an innovative, conceptual use of photography.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3863353323
• ISBN 13: 9783863353322
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible