Marcel Duchamp: Artist of the Century

First MIT Press edition, 1989. Hardcover in original dust jacket. Mustard cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Cloth clean overall, with a conspicuous narrow darker horizontal band running across the board, as shown in the photograph. Previous owner's signature to front free endpaper. Binding firm. Apart from the signature, the book is unmarked throughout. Original dust jacket is age-toned with edge wear and several tears and small areas of loss, particularly at the upper front corner and along the upper rear edge. Edited by Rudolf E. Kuenzli and Francis M. Naumann, this substantial collection examines Marcel Duchamp's work through eleven illustrated essays, together with documentary material and a selective bibliography. Contributors include Beatrice Wood, Arturo Schwarz, Thierry de Duve, William A. Camfield and Dalia Judovitz, with subjects including Duchamp's Fountain, the ready-mades, his puns and eroticism, the Large Glass, Etant donnés, and his letters to Walter and Louise Arensberg. Originally published as issue 16 of Dada/Surrealism before this MIT Press book edition.…