{"product_id":"duchamp-takes-new-york-paperback-1","title":"Duchamp Takes New York - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Strausbaugh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublishing to coincide with a major MoMA Retrospective, this book revisits the artist who upended modern art, and the city that made it possible.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtist, anti-artist, joker, trickster, shape-shifter: Marcel Duchamp broke with tradition and pushed the avant-garde decisively forward. When his work exploded like an art bomb in New York in the 1910s, American art was still mired in the nineteenth century. Duchamp, bored with tradition, reimagined what art could be, what it was for, and how it might be made--hanging a snow shovel from the ceiling, inverting a urinal, \"painting\" with dust and bits of string between panes of glass, and reducing his entire oeuvre into a briefcase of miniatures. \u003cem\u003eDuchamp Takes New York\u003c\/em\u003e traces this bold, playful energy, showing how the city inspired and staged his avant-garde experiments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuchamp's offhand gestures reshaped the course of twentieth-century American art, laying the groundwork for nearly every major movement that followed. And then, at the height of his influence, Duchamp appeared to walk away--declaring himself finished with art and devoting his energies to becoming a chess champion instead. Only after his death did it emerge that he had spent two decades secretly working on one final, unsettling work, leaving the world to try to comprehend it without explanation--his ultimate prank.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Strausbaugh, a longtime chronicler of the city, puts New York at the center of Duchamp's story. Fleeing the comforts of French bourgeois life--\"wives, three children, a country house, three cars!\"--Duchamp found New York instantly liberating. It was here that he produced much of his most radical work and eventually settled for good, once declaring, \"New York itself is a complete work of art.\" Duchamp's art simply can't be pinned down, without first recognizing his relationship to New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Strausbaugh\u003c\/strong\u003e is an author, historiographer and journalist. His most recent books include three deep explorations of New York City history. \u003cem\u003eThe Village\u003c\/em\u003e, his epic history of Greenwich Village, was hailed as \"rare and refreshing\" in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eCity of Sedition\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), his history of New York City during the Civil War, won the Fletcher Pratt Award and the Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies. \u003cem\u003eVictory City\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), was praised as \"a compulsively engaging read\" (\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e). He is a former editor of the legendary downtown weekly New York Press, and has been a contributing writer for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. He lives in Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48326186729721,"sku":"9781682194577","price":20.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/kCceml0-eL9781682194577_a4c68d1e-cd62-4428-83be-db8d80edbe0b.webp?v=1777291040","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/duchamp-takes-new-york-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}