Post-Retinal
Harry Mathews, 28 November 1996
The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation and the Self in Modern Culture
by Jerrold Seigel.
California, 291 pp., £28, September 1996,0 520 20038 1 Show More
by Jerrold Seigel.
California, 291 pp., £28, September 1996,
“... estrangement. Although the notion that Duchamp’s works are autobiographical is not new – Octavio Paz, for one, said that ‘each one of his paintings is a symbolical self-portrait’ – Seigel authoritatively defines a tradition into which the artist’s self-portrayal naturally fits. He discusses an essential question: how, when an inherited ... ”