Review of DUCHAMP TAKES NEW YORK

"The author employs colorful detail to explore how Duchamp crafted his own image—he claimed for decades to be a “renegade anti-artist,” proclaimed he’d given up art for chess, and styled himself as a “loner” despite being the life of Manhattan’s “raucous, salacious” social scene. Also examined are his connections to such contemporaries as Man Ray and George Bellows. Mining contemporaneous art criticism and gossipy accounts from those in Duchamp’s personal and artistic circles, it’s a brief but lively portrait of a key player in one of the early 20th century’s most vital artistic movements."

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