The Duchamp Dictionary

267 Pages·2014·27.94 MB·English

by  Thomas Girst

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thomas Girst (b. 1971) has studied Art History, German Literature and
American Studies at Hamburg and New York Universities. He holds a PhD in
American Studies and has been Head of Cultural Engagement at the BMW
Group since 2003. As a cultural correspondent, curator, publisher and academic
lecturer, he has written widely on modern and contemporary art. Girst founded
Die Aussenseite des Elementes (1992–2003), an international yearly anthology
of literature and art. In 1996, he archived the collection of Duchamp scholar
Serge Stauffer at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Girst was editor in chief of Tout
Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal (1999–2003) while he was
research manager at Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould’s and Rhonda Roland
Shearer’s Art Science Research Laboratory in New York. His publications
include Marcel Duchamp in Munich 1912 (Prestel, 2012), The Indefinite
Duchamp (Hatje Cantz, 2013), Art, Literature, and the Japanese American
Internment Experience (Peter Lang, 2014) and BMW Art Cars (Hatje Cantz,
2014).
Other titles of interest published by
Thames & Hudson include:
Marcel Duchamp
(World of Art series)
Affect Marcel.
The Selected Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp
Dada: Art and Anti-Art
(World of Art series)
Surrealist Art
(World of Art series)
A Boatload of Madmen:
Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde 1920-1950
See our websites
www.thamesandhudson.com
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com
In memory of Serge Stauffer (1929–89)
C O N T E N T S
INTRODUCTION: ABC DUCHAMP
DICTIONARY A-Z
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y,
Z
NOTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHRONOLOGY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
INTRODUCTION :
A B C DUCHAMP