The Brothers Duchamp: Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp

Cabanne, Pierre

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976. Hardcover. Aqua cloth boards with gilt spine letteirng; white dust jacket, color illustrated on front, bw illustrated on rear, black lettering on a white spine; 269 pp; richly illustrated throughout in bw and color. VG-/VG- (previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, boards are lightly bumped, pages are clear. Dust jacket has overall light wear, age toning and scuffing). Item #180884
ISBN: 9780821206669

Contents include: Three young provincials in Paris -- The Pateaux conspiracy -- Light and movement -- The golden section -- The virgin, the bride, and the bachelors -- The Armory Show scandal -- The horse and the machine -- America! America! -- Villon between the schematic and the lyrical -- The Duchamp myth and the large glass -- A solitary painter and the diligent engineer -- Jacques Villon's fame -- The first painter to speak the language of the air -- Macel Duchamp: protest and fame.