{"product_id":"duchamp-jean-christophe-bailly-fernand-hazan-paris-1984","title":"Marcel Duchamp — Duchamp, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Fernand Hazan, Paris, 1984","description":"\u003cp\u003eFernand Hazan, Paris, 1984. Original French edition. Masters of Art series. Text by Jean-Christophe Bailly; graphic design by Roman Cieslewicz; translated by J. Brenton. Softcover, 119 pages, 16 × 18 cm. Colour and black-and-white reproductions throughout. French language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good. Visible handling, light edge and corner wear, surface marks and age toning consistent with use. Original Flammarion retail price label retained to rear wrapper, priced 65 F and dated 5\/88.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Duchamp made portable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in Paris in 1984, Jean-Christophe Bailly's compact monograph arrives after Duchamp's transformation from difficult historical presence into one of contemporary art's organising figures. The readymade had already shifted attention from manufacture towards selection, naming and placement; by the 1980s, Duchamp himself was being reproduced, catalogued and circulated through precisely the systems his work had helped destabilise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRoman Cieslewicz's graphic design makes the object particularly sharp. Duchamp's famously altered profile dominates the cover; biography, reproductions and chronology follow inside. On the rear, a photograph of Duchamp sits above the proposition that the viewers make the pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen another system leaves its mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe surviving Flammarion 65-franc price label, dated 5\/88, records this copy continuing through the French book trade four years after publication. Retail information that would ordinarily be removed has become part of the object's biography: publisher, shop, price, date, owner, retention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA mass-produced book about the artist who changed what an object could become. This copy has subsequently acquired its own small history of placement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe object remains unchanged. Its placement does not.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fernand Hazan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54309970674002,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Duchamp_Marcel.Duchamp_MastersofArtS._Jean-ChristopheBailly_Author_J.Brenton_Translator_.19862_8e265df7-cf3e-4887-81e4-20fc62567ae2.jpg?v=1787109547","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/duchamp-jean-christophe-bailly-fernand-hazan-paris-1984","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}