Kendell Geers: Duchamp’s Endgame
Da Vinci, Dürer; Ingres, Poussin
Wilde & Mercatorfonds, 2024
€45,00
Forget everything you’ve ever heard about Marcel Duchamp and dive into the heart of art history’s most intriguing mystery. Duchamp’s Endgame is a passionate story about the fundamental mysteries of what the work of the godfather of Dada and Pope of Surrealism was really about. This captivating story challenges the official canons and takes the reader on a visually fascinating journey through the enchanting labyrinths of the artist’s imagination.
South African artist residing in Brussels and author Kendell Geers (b. 1968) reveals the open source structure of art history, how one artist actually looked closely at the work of another artist, who in turn was deeply influenced by yet another artist, who also looked at other artists looked.
For the first time since the summer of 1912, Geers opens our eyes to what exactly Duchamp did that year in Munich and why he stopped painting in 1919. The mystery has been hidden in plain sight for more than a century, because every work of art he created holds the key to understanding another work of art. Duchamp is just the beginning of an underground art history that meanders through the paintings of Picabia, Ingres, Guercino, Poussin, Dürer and Raphael, all the way back to Leonardo da Vinci./p>
ISBN: 9789462303737
