Duchamp. Eine Ausstellung im Museum Ludwig, Köln 27.6.-19.8.1984 (An Exhibition at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne)

Gohr, Siegfried; Rosa Maria Malet; Gloria Moure. Duchamp. Eine Ausstellung im Museum Ludwig, Köln 27.6.-19.8.1984 (An Exhibition at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne). Cologne: Museum of the City of Cologne, 1984. First German edition. Large Quarto. Unpaginatd. Original color-illustrated stiff wraps with white lettering on cover and spine. Double page half-title and chapter titles in black with white lettering. Frontispiece photograph. Exhibition organized in Spain by the Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, and the Caja de Pensiones Foundation.

The work and thinking of Marcel Duchamp influenced the development of art in the USA and Europe, particularly in the years around and after 1960. When declaring found objects to be art, in order to end his engagement in “painting,” and retreating completely to create a “silence,”… the negation created positive impulses, triggered by Pop-Art artists in New York and the “Nouveaux Réalistes” in Paris, and by artists in Düsseldorf and Berlin. In 1964 Joseph Beuys created an artwork entitled “The Silence of Marcel Duchamp is Overvalued.” (Intro by Siegfried Gohr).

The publication is profusely illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of art by Duchamp throughout. Contains Duchamp biography, bibliography, filmography and list of lenders at rear. Text in German. Light wear along edges of covers. Near fine condition. Softcover. (55312) $75