Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Valentine Hugo, Joan Miró
Non vouloir; Pablo Picasso; Marcel Duchamp; Au dépens des mots (Not to Want; Pablo Picasso; Marcel Duchamp; At the Expense of Words)
Published 1940–41; bound c. 1941–52
Four separately published pamphlets bound together into one book. Six line-block reproductions of drawings, three reworked with engraving (Picasso); two line-block reproductions of drawings (Miró, Hugo); one tipped-in pochoir (Duchamp); letterpress text. Bespoke binding by Hugnet for Paul Éluard with covers of parchment over boards, gouache illustrations on front and back
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Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881–1973 1257 works onlineWith these words, Picasso shed light on two central principles of his artistic production over nearly 80 years: his openness to a diverse range of styles, subject matters, and mediums, and his resistance to the notion that change in art necessarily corresponds to improvement or progress.
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Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893–1983 491 works onlineJoan Miró’s painting The Hunter (Catalan Landscape) brings together the real and the imaginary, abstraction and figuration, and image and text in a way that would characterize much of his work to come.
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Marcel Duchamp
American, born France. 1887–1968 192 works onlineWhen Marcel Duchamp created his most famous work—the industrially produced urinal Fountain —it was largely ignored. Fountain was the high point of Duchamp’s campaign to dismantle and expand the boundaries of what constitutes a work of art; it had begun four years earlier, when he asked, “Can one make works that are not ‘of art’?
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