The "artist of the century" Marcel Duchamp in the focus of his intellectual relationships with women.
This first comprehensive publication on the subject examines the women in and around Duchamp's life and work with a focus on biographical coincidences – from Duchamp's youth to his death in 1968. Some of the women gathered here were central figures of early twentieth-century modernism, while others formed part of fascinating intellectual and artistic networks that are waiting to be rediscovered. "Duchamp and the Women" thus acquaints readers with the cultural circles and artistic movements in whose context the women presented here were active and within which they, in turn, were formative.
Including short biographies of more than 80 women and art-historical essays on Louise Arensberg, Djuna Barnes, Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia, Katherine Sophie Dreier, Suzanne Duchamp, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Peggy Guggenheim, Mina Loy, Maria Martins, Mary Reynolds, Gertrude Stein, Carrie, Florine and Ettie Stettheimer, Beatrice Wood.
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, 2020–2021.
