Calvin Tomkins' Duchamp Interviews: A Must-Read Book

A new edition of Calvin Tomkins' interviews with Marcel Duchamp, originally published in 2013, offers direct insight into the artist's thoughts. The conversations, held in the mid-1960s, reveal Duchamp's disdain for the art market and his critique of young American artists' lack of slowness. He discusses his relationships with Cubists, Dadaists, and Surrealists, and his interest in Pop Art, particularly Warhol and Rauschenberg. Duchamp reflects on his major work 'The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even' (The Large Glass), created between 1915 and 1923, and his concept of the readymade as a rejection of rational control. He also mentions John Cage's use of chance in music, linking it to his own 1913 musical score 'Erratum Musical'. The book includes a postface by Marco Senaldi and is published by Postmedia Books in Milan.