Dancing Around the Bride by Carlos Basualdo

Dancing Around the Bride by Carlos Basualdo

This fascinating book explores the interwoven lives, radical art, and shared experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp and four of America's most important postwar artists: composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and visual artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. The publication traces the relationships among all five of these artists by mapping their intersections and examining the depth of their artistic exchanges.

At the heart of the publication is an anthology of key texts from selected interviews, magazine articles, and book excerpts, by scholars, critics, and the artists themselves, that together narrate the younger generation's first connections to Duchamp and his work, which would profoundly redefine his legacy as well as the entire field of contemporary art. A new text by Calvin Tomkins provides an insightful first-person account of his encounters with these artists at a key moment in the 1960s. The book also includes the first extensive chronology that recounts the lives, art, and common projects of this influential group of artists.

Carlos Basualdo is Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Jean-François Chevrier is a lecturer on the history of art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and an independent curator. Claire Gilman is a scholar of postwar Italian art. Gabriele Guercio is the author of Art as Existence: The Artist's Monograph and Its Project. Suzanne Penn is Conservator of Paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Angela Vettese is director of the Fondazione Pomodoro in Milan and the Fondazione Bevilacqua in Venice, and chair of the Art Department at Università Iuav di Venezia.

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ISBN 13	9780876332429
ISBN 10	0876332424
Title	Dancing Around the Bride
Author	Carlos Basualdo
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Philadelphia Museum Of Art
Year published	2012-09-01
Number of pages	432
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