Aka Marcel Duchamp: Meditations on the Identities of an Artist

aka Marcel Duchamp is an anthology of recent essays by leading scholars on Marcel Duchamp, arguably the most influential artist of the twentieth century. With scholarship addressing the full range of Duchamp's career, these papers examine how Duchamp's influence grew and impressed itself upon his contemporaries and subsequent generations of artists. Duchamp provides an illuminating model of the dynamics of play in construction of artistic identity and legacy, which includes both personal volition and contributions made by fellow artists, critics, and historians. This volume is not only important for its contributions to Duchamp studies and the light it sheds on the larger impact of Duchamp's art and career on modern and contemporary art, but also for what it reveals about how the history of art itself is shaped over time by shifting agendas, evolving methodologies, and new discoveries.

I. Front Matter 1. Acknowledgements 2. Introduction by Anne Collins Goodyear and James W. McManus   II. (Un)Masking Marcel 1. Section Introduction 2. Wendy Wick Reaves, “Brittle Painted Masks: Portraiture in the Age of Duchamp” 3. Adrian Sudhalter, “R(r)ose Recontextualized: French/American  Identity and the Photographic Portraits for Dadaglobe and New York Dada” 4. James Housefield, “Starry Messenger: Astronomy, Fashion, and Identity in Marcel Duchamp’s Comet Haircut” 5.  David Hopkins, “Duchamp, Surrealism, and ‘Liberty’: From Dust Breeding to Étant donnés”   III.  Marcel Duchamp ‘an-artist’ 1. Section Introduction 2. Linda Dalrymple Henderson, “Paradigm Shifts and Shifting Identities in the Career of Marcel Duchamp” 3. Scott Homolka, Beth A. Price and Ken Sutherland, “Marcel Duchamp’s FILS: Fathering Nude Descending a Staircase (no. 3) 4. Catherine Craft, “Pictures of the Past:  Dada and the Two Duchamps” 5. Lewis Kachur, “Notes on Duchamp’s Exhibition Identity”   IV. Taking Stock of Duchamp’s Presence 1. Section Introduction 2. Anne Collins Goodyear and James W. McManus, “Sur Mésure: On Jean Crotti’s Idea of Marcel Duchamp” 3. Scott Homolka and Scott Gerson, “Two portraits of Marcel Duchamp by Jean Crotti: Technical Note” 4. Michael Taylor, “Hieronymus Duchamp” 5. Francis M. Naumann, “Duchamp’s Detractors” 6. Janine Mileaf, “The Stripper and the Glass: Hannah Wilke at the Philadelphia Museum of Art” 7. Brian O’Doherty, “Taking Duchamp’s Portrait”