Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall

by Paul B. Franklin, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp Staff, Molly Nesbit, et al.

In August 1946, Marcel Duchamp spent five weeks in Switzerland, and stayed at the Hotel Bellevue (today, Le Baron Tavernier) near Chexbres, on Lake Geneva. It was here that he discovered the Forestay waterfall, which was to become the starting point for (and ultimately the landscape of) his enigmatic and final masterpiece, "?tant donn?s: 1 la chute d'eau, 2 le gaz d'?clairage" ("Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas"). Now, for the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3037641568
• ISBN13: 9783037641569
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Jrp Ringier
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 2.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.1" x 9.6"