Duchamp Accelerated

Marcel Duchamp is today considered one of the most significant 20th century artists worldwide. His far-reaching influence is visible within a variety of areas of creative production and critical inquiry, extending far beyond the world of art. Duchamp Accelerated: Contemporary Perspectives examines Duchamp and his reception through a series of essays that explore the ongoing impacts of his life, ideas and practice on innumerable fields of research, practice and study. Contributors include art historians, curators, artists and writers who offer histories and approaches that actively challenge dominant narratives on Duchamp, discussing his influences from a multitude of different disciplinary and cultural perspectives. Written in the specific context of the 21st century, this volume situates the artist firmly in a global context and highlights the numerous influences - from theories of perception and the writings of Georges Bataille, to travels in Argentina - that shaped his ideas and art. This volume pushes current understandings of Duchamp beyond existing limits by accelerating the histories, encounters, dialogues and interpretations of his practice, with a focus on contemporary perspectives. The 'accelerated' Duchamp that emerges from this analysis is one who not only speeds up notions of art in relation to cultural and political histories, but one whose practice is actively informing future developments in the worlds of art and material culture today.

List of FiguresNotes on Contributors Acknowledgements1. The Lives and Times of Marcel Duchamp-An Introduction, Julian Jason Haladyn (OCAD University, Canada)2. Fifty Cubic Centimetres of Infected Air? Duchamp's Paris Air and Dada's Transmission, David Hopkins (University of Glasgow, UK)3. I.O.U's and a Practice Deferred: On Duchampian Refusals of Work, Nare Mokgotho (Artist, Johannesburg, South Africa)4. What Was and Was Not (an Unhappy Readymade): Marcel Duchamp in Argentina, Dot Tuer (OCAD University, Canada)5. Unchamp, a Cyclops: Looking with one eye, close to, from the other side of the glass, Maxwell Hyett (Western University, Canada)6. Casting a Long Shadow: Jean-François Lyotard, Marcel Duchamp, Michael Snow, Elizabeth Legge (University of Toronto, Canada)7. Duchamp and the Play of Distances, Yam Lau (University of York, UK)8. The Subterranean Modernism of Bataille and Duchamp, Jaime Tsai (The National Art School, Australia)9. The Fine Art of Bureaucracy: Duchamp and Broodthaers, E.J. Dickson (Western University, Canada)10. Capturing the Dada Spirit: Curating the Israel Museum's Dada and Surrealist Collection, Adina Kamien (The Israel Museum, Israel)11. Idle Speculation, André Alexis (Independent writer, Canada)12. Visual Cast: Cinéma en relief and the nude figure in Given, Penelope Haralambidou (The Bartlett School of Architecture, UK)13. Going Underground with Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Wall, Michael R. Taylor (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, USA)14. We Will Wait, Serkan O¿zkaya (Artist, New York City, USA)Appendix: Interview with André Alexis