Marcel Duchamp: A work that is not a work “of art” covers the life and work of Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) through photographs, letters, texts and an important selection of essays by remarkable researchers.

The texts contribute to the debate and reflection on the artist’s work; at the same time, they help reassess the value of the “Duchamp effect” on the art and culture of our times. The essays “The Blink of an Eye” and “Le Temps du Ready-made” by Rosalind Krauss and Thierry de Duve respectively, are published for the first time in Spanish.

In addition, the catalogue includes a comprehensive presentation of the artist’s life and work, along with an unpublished essay by Gonzalo Aguilar regarding Duchamp in Buenos Aires and another by Elena Filipovic –curator of the exhibition- that shed light on the curatorial aspects of the artist. Duchamp is present in his own words throughout the catalogue with his thoughts regarding his work and the letters he wrote during his stay in Buenos Aires.

This edition includes a significant body of images of Duchamp’s works, as well as photographs and documents that go far beyond illustrative purposes and enable a parallel reading with its own narrative.

ISBN: 978-987-21336-7-2
360 pages / 179 color images
CD: Textes originaux en française. Original English texts. English translations. Edição em português
Texts: Gonzalo Aguilar - Marcel Duchamp - Thierry de Duve - Elena Filipovic - Rosalind Krauss - Octavio Paz - Hugo Petruschansky - Regina Teixeira de Barros

Thanks to the sponsorship of the French Embassy in Argentina, the texts of the catalogue are also edited in a paperback version and small format, with reference images in black and white, at an affordable price.

This book belongs to the educational Collection of Writings on Contemporary Art that Fundación Proa has been publishing so as to spread contemporary ideas.

For the frist time, are Published in Spanish “The time of the readymade” by Thierry de Duve and “The blink o fan eye”, by Rosalind Krauss.

The book also includes “A museum that is not such” by Elena Filipovic, the curator of Marcel Duchamp: a work that is not a work “of art”.

To complete the essays, the book includes the research works of Gonzalo Aguilar and of Elena Texeira de Barros, that look into the collections of Buenos Aires and San Pablo.

ISBN 978-987-21336-9-6
212 pages / 15,5 cm x 22,5 cm / Black and white images
Texts by: G. Aguilar - M. Duchamp - T. de Duve - E. Filipovic - R. Krauss - O. Paz - H. Petruschansky - R. Teixeira de Barros