Michael Gibson - Duchamp Dada - Casterman 1991

Parisian critic for the International Herald Tribune, Michael Gibson, author of numerous monographs, has long time been interested by creation's problems.
He shows us that through outrageous negation, and overemphasis on the emptiness - designated as the unacknowledged center of Western values - Duchamp and Dada were part of the history of painting. All a whole part of modern art - and not the least derives from them. These wastes, these useless machines, these monochromes that figures contemporary artists, often sum up Duchamp's nihilistic credo: "There is no solution because there is no problem". 

264p - FR - 25x33cm - hardcover in dust-jacket - very good condition