Preferred Citation: Seigel, Jerrold. The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  1995. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9h4nb688/


 

Index

Duchamp's works are indexed under his name, and not separately for each work; the same practice is followed for other artists

A

Abbot, Edwin A., Flatland (1884), 261 n20

abstraction, in Duchamp's work, 70

Académie Julian, 20

Adam and Eve, 28

Adcock, Craig E., 261 n7, 262 n21

advertising, 29 , 179

Aillaud, Gilles, quoted, 206

alchemy, 12 , 33 -35

anarchism, 165

Antliff, Mark, 257 -58n1

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 3 , 52 , 56 -57, 75 , 90 ;

"Calligrammes," 155

Aragon, Louis, 206

Arensberg, Walter, 3 , 89 , 107 , 136 , 137 , 139 , 168 , 185 , 191 , 208 , 231

Armory Show (International Exhibition of Modern Art, New York, 1913), 1 -11, 50 , 60 , 115 , 128 -29, 180 , 208 , 224 -25, 231

Arroyo, Eduardo, quoted, 206

art market, Duchamp's ties to, 180 .

See also commerce

automobiles, 56 , 66 , 79 ;

in Duchamp's work, 90 -91, 96 , 260 n4, 263 n10

avant-garde, 15 , 115 -16, 183 , 235 -37.

See also dada;

futurism;

modernism;

surrealism

B

Babitz, Eve, 209

Balkans, 54

Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules, 216

Barcelona, 3

Barr, Alfred, 266 n22

Baruchello, Gianfranco, 108 , 111 , 120 , 231 -32, 240 , 241 , 242 , 251

Baudelaire, Charles, 38 , 45 -46, 48 , 98 -99, 168 , 182 -83, 217 -18, 219 -20;

"Jewels," 98 ;

"Locks," 98 ;

Mon


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Baudelaire, Charles (continued )

Coeur mis à nu (My Heart Laid Bare ), 99 ;

"Windows," 45

Benjamin, Walter, 99 , 104 , 168

Bergman, Max, 61

Bergson, Henri, 56 -58, 66 , 87 , 240 , 241 , 257 -58n1

Bescherel dictionary, 83

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève (Paris), 87

Blaue Reiter,61 -62

Blind Man (New York), 139

bohemianism, 20 , 214 -21, 228 ;

and art, 217 - 21

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 80 , 172

Bonnefoy, Yves, 220 , 228

Boston, 3

bourgeoisie, 13 -14, 16 -18, 75 , 78 , 230 ;

and selfhood, 13 -14

Brancusi, Constantine, 231 , 263 n10

Braque, Georges, 60 , 73

Breton, André 10 , 17 , 76 , 77 , 89 , 141 , 235 -36, 240 , 251 , 262 n8

Brooklyn, 89

Buenos Aires.

See Duchamp, Marcel: in Buenos Aires

Buffet, Gabrielle (also Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia), 41 -42, 75 , 90 -91, 97 , 127 , 198 -99, 208

Bürger, Peter, 267 n27

C

Cabanel, Alexandre, The Birth of Venus (1863), 4 , 5

Cabanne, Pierre, 119 , 177 , 180 , 190 , 194 , 209 , 215 , 220 , 249

Café du Dôme (Paris), 193

Cage, John, 12 , 243 -46, 273 n9

Caillebotte, Gustave, The Man at the Window,43 , 44 , 45 , 166

Camfield, William, 265 n27

Carrouges, Michel, 273 n15

Caumont, Jacques, 190 , 255 n12, 267 -68n8

Cézanne, Paul, 18 , 20 , 22 , 46 , 48 , 266 n7

"Cham," La Naissance du petit ébéniste (1865), 8

Champfleury (Jules Fleury), 217

chance, in Duchamp's life and work, 89 , 91 , 162 -66, 235

chess, and art, 207 -13;

in Duchamp's life, 4 , 75 , 188 , 189 , 191 , 192 , 199 , 208 -9, 210 -11, 271 n41;

in Duchamp's work, 22 -24, 63 -64, 73 , 208 , 209 , 239

Chirico, Giorgio de, 231

Coates, Robert, 258 n6

cold war, 54

commerce, 272 n20;

in Duchamp's work, 29 , 89 , 92 , 121 , 223 -24, 231 -32

communication, in Duchamp's work, 22 , 27 -28, 38 -39, 69 , 71 -72, 84 -85, 97 , 176 , 183 , 201 -2.

See also irony, in Duchamp's work;

language, and Duchamp;

puns, in Duchamp's work

communism, 54

Courbet, Gustave, 7 , 111 -13, 272 n22;

L'Origine du monde, 111 .

See also retinal art

Courrier français,20

Crotti, Jean, 129 , 131 -32, 134 , 165 , 197 , 223 , 231

Crotti, Suzanne. See Duchamp, Suzanne (Crotti)

Crotti, Yvonne, 190 -91

cubism, 6 , 10 , 11 , 22 , 51 -53, 115 , 235 , 242 ;

and Duchamp, 17 , 24 , 39 , 61 , 62 -64, 74 , 86 , 231

Cyprus, 220

D

dada, 6 , 146 , 197 , 227 ;

and Duchamp, 11 , 17 , 140 , 235

See also Duchamp, Marcel, works and writings: readymades


285

Daniels, Dieter, 253 n9

Dante, 80

deconstruction, 159 -62, 249

Deleuze, Gilles, 273 n15

Derrida, Jacques, 159 , 160 -61, 249 , 250

desire, in Duchamp's work, 30 , 35 , 41 , 87 , 93 , 102 , 110 , 141 , 171 , 176 , 181 .

See also sexuality, in Duchamp's work

dimensionality, in modern art, 24 , 143 , 145 -46, 153 , 228 ;

in Duchamp's work, 24 , 99 -106, 110 , 154 , 174 , 220 , 239

Don Quixote, 41

Dreier, Dorothea, 168 -71

Dreier, Katherine, 89 , 107 , 143 , 168 , 180 , 189 , 268 n14

Dreyfus Affair, 54

Duchamp, Alexina Sattler (Matisse), 108 , 190 .

See also Duchamp, Marcel: marriages of

Duchamp, Gaston (Jacques Villon), 16 -17, 20 , 51

Duchamp, Lydie. See Sarrazin-Levassor, Lydie

Duchamp, Magdeleine, 16 , 20 , 31 -32

Duchamp, Marcel: and America, 1 -4, 14 , 117 , 127 , 128 -32, 134 , 185 -88, 215 , 224 , 247 , 264 n16;

in Buenos Aires (1918), 103 , 166 , 171 , 190 , 231 ;

career of, interpretations, 12 -15, 35 , 73 -74, 161 -62, 253 -55nn 10 , n, 12 ;

character of, 17 -18, 30 , 38 -39, 41 -42, 54 -55, 69

(see also communication, in Duchamp's work;

Duchamp, Marcel: and his family;

mystery, as motif in Duchamp's work;

selfhood, as motif in Duchamp's work;

subjectivity, as motif in Duchamp's work);

dream of, 67 , 70 ;

and his family, 16 -20, 22 -25, 31 , 59 , 68 , 97 , 121 , 230 ;

influence of, 11 -14, 234 -36, 243 , 248 , 254 n11

(see also Duchamp, Marcel: reputation of);

marriages of, 188 -90, 194 -97;

in Munich (1912), 61 -73, 86 , 126 , 132 , 208 ;

and politics, 235 , 247 -48, 251 , 273 ;

and the public, 2 -9, 11 , 53 , 88 -89, 110 , 128 -29, 131 -32, 134 -36, 147 , 221 -25;

relations with other artists, 10 , 17 , 55 -58, 63 -64, 68 , 74 , 97 -98, 146 , 247 -48;

"renunciation" of painting, 202 -7;

reputation of, 1 -15, 128 -29;

as "Rrose Sélavy," 64 , 114 , 119 , 120 , 143 , 144,168 -71, 198 -201, 231 ;

and sexuality, 18 , 22 , 31 , 32 -34, 113 -14, 143 , 184 -202, 256 n14, 269 n21

(see also Duchamp, Marcel, works and writings: Large Glass, The;

sexuality, in Duchamp's work)

Duchamp, Marcel, works and writings:

Air de Paris,168 , 169,230

Anemic Cinema,174 , 175

Apolinère Enameled, 134 , 135

Apropos of Little Sister,31 , 32

Artist's Father, The,18 , 19 ,31

Baptism, 35 -38, 37,52 , 148

Bec Auer, Le,112 , 113,195

Bicycle Wheel (readymade), 118 , 122 -25, 123,132 -33, 154 , 166 , 171

Boîtes en valise, 229 -33, 230,239

Bottle Rack (readymade), 119 , 125,126 , 132 -33, 138 , 154 , 166 , 172 , 264

Box of 1914,137 , 145 , 247

Brawl at Austerlitz, The, 172 - 74 , 173

Bride, The (1912), 66 -67, 67,69 , 126

Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, The. See Large Glass, The

Bride Stripped Bare by the Bachelors, The (1912), 66ff, 67,126


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Duchamp, Marcel, works and writings (continued)

Bush, The, 35 -38, 36,52 , 190

Chastity Wedge,194 , 195,198 , 199 , 201

Chess Game, The,22 -23, 23 , 24 , 28 , 31 , 35 , 208

Coffee Mill,61 , 62

"Creative Act, The," 221 -23

Disks Bearing Spirals,174 , 176

Disks Inscribed with Puns,174 , 175

Door, 11 rue Larrey,108 , 109

Dulcinea, 39 , 40,41 , 57 , 59 , 87

Dust Breeding,163 , 163

Emergency in Favor of Twice,155

Erratum Musicale,90

Eternal Siesta,39

Female Fig Leaf,195 -97, 196

Fountain (urinal readymade), 3 , 126 , 136 -39, 138,159 , 177 , 179 -80, 185 -86, 207 , 230 ;

and Large Glass, 137

Fresh Widow,166 -68, 167,173

Given: 1. The Waterfall'2. The Illuminating Gas,84 , 107 -14, 107,141 -43, 180 , 195 , 196 , 199 , 100 , 202 , 208 , 234 , 246 , pl. 5

Glider Containing a Water-Mill in Neighboring Metals,86 -87, 88

Green Box, The,89 , 93 , 152 , 165 , 231

In Advance of the Broken Arm (snow shovel readymade), 131 -33, 133, 155

King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes, The,63 -66, 65, 238

King and Queen Traversed by Nudes at High Speed, The,63 -66, 238

King and Queen Traversed by Swift Nudes, The,63 -66, 65, 238

Large Glass, The (The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even ), 3 , 10 , 11 , 24 , 60 , 63 , 74 , 75 , 117 -18, 132 , 230 , 231 , 238 -39, 246 , 263 , 278 , pl. 4 ;

bachelor imagery in, 91 -93;

and Baudelaire, as intellectual predecessor, 98 -99;

and chess, 211 , 212 ;

conceptual beginnings, 68 -69, 72 -73, 86 -87;

desire, as motif in, 94 -97, 191 , 204 , 210 ;

dimensionality, as motif in, 99 -103, 228 ;

and Dust Breeding,163 ;

and Fountain,137 ;

and Given, 106 -14;

irony in, 87 -90, 93 -94;

and L.H.O.O.Q.,140 -41;

and the note on shop windows, 97 ;

notes for, 29 -30, 35 , 69 , 72 -73, 74 , 88 -91, 91 -97, 99 -106, 114 , 148 , 152 -54, 256 (see also Box of 1914 ;

Green Box, The ;

White Box, The [À l'infinitif ]);

and private language, 68 -69, 153 -54;

puns in, 120 ;

and ready-mades, 126 , 128 , 134 , 166 -67

L.H.O.O.Q. (Mona Lisa ready-made), 119 , 139 -43, 140,201 , 231 ;

and Large Glass, 140 -41

L.H.O.O.Q., Shaven (second Mona Lisa readymade), 141 -43, 142

Mediocrity, 39

Monte Carlo Bond,163 , 164

note on shop windows, 29 -30, 35 , 41 , 97 , 106 , 114 , 143 , 168 , 199 , 204 , 239

Nude Descending a Staircase,1 -3, 6 , 9 , 57 -58, 60 -61, 68 , 122 , 129 , 207 , 225 , 238 , pl. 1 ;

miniature version, 187

Objet dard,195 , 196,198

Once More to This Star,38 , 39 ,148

Paradise, 26 -31, 26,35 , 87 , 143 , 148 , 191

Passage from Virgin to Bride, The,69 -74, 93 , pl. 3

Paysage fautif,197 , 198

Pharmacy, 119 , 121,122 , 133 -34

Pliant de voyage . See Traveler's Folding Item

Portrait of Chess Players,24 , 25

Portrait of Dr. Dumouchel,27 , 27


287

readymades (see also under individual objects or titles ), 3 , 11 , 84 , 108 , 115 -28, 131 -159, 161 , 166 , 177 -83, 205 -7, 211 , 212 , 225 , 231 , 238 -39;

as artistic challenge, 115 -17, 119 , 127 -28;

and formalist aesthetics, 265 ;

Fountain as turning point, 136 -39, 146 -47;

and identity, 117 -18;

and Large Glass, 126 , 128 , 134 , 166 -67;

and modern industry, 179 , 242 -43, 258 n8, 263 ;

puns, verbal and visual, in, 119 -22;

sexuality in, 126 , 140 -42;

in Tu'm', 145

Rendezvous of Sunday, February 6, 1916,155 -59, 157, 166 , 210

Sad Young Man on a Train,42 , 57 -61, 58, 97 , 121 , 122 , 238 , 258 n7

Sculpture for Traveling,171

Selected Details after Courbet,112 , 112

Sonata, 19 -20, 21,26 , 28 , 35 , 230

"Sundays," 20

The, 155 -59, 156,161 , 210

Three Standard Stoppages,92 , 143 , 162 -63, 162,165 , 230 , 231 , 243

To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close To, for Almost an Hour,103 , 104,166

To Have the Apprentice in the Sun,122 -25, 124,171 -72

Trap (Trébuchet),172 , 172

Traveler's Folding Item (Pliant de voyage),134 , 136 , 158 , 159, 172 , 230

Tu m' , 143 -46, 158 , 172 , 178 , 231 , 202 , pl. 6

Two Nudes: One Strong and One Swift,63 -66, 64,238

Unhappy Readymade,165 -66

Virgin (I), 69 -71, 70,73

Virgin (II), 69 -71, 71,73

White Box, The (À l'infinitif ), 29 -30, 99 , 114 , 153 -54

Why Not Sneeze, R[r]ose Sélavy?168 -71, 170, 266

With Hidden Noise,134 , 135,255

"Woman Cab Driver," 20

Young Man and Girl in Spring,28 -31, 33 -35, 59 , 97 , 117 , pl. 2

Yvonne and Magdeleine Torn in Tatters,32 -33, 33

Duchamp, Raymond (Raymond Duchamp-Villon), 16 -17, 51 , 57 , 58 , 61 , 99

Duchamp, Suzanne (Crotti), 16 -17, 32 -35, 59 , 121 , 126 , 131 , 132 , 136 -37, 165 , 200 , 256 n14, 257 n7

Duchamp, Yvonne, 16 , 20 , 31 , 185

Duchamp family.

See Duchamp, Marcel: and his family

Du Frène, Charlotte, 79 , 260

Duve, Thierry de, 249 ;

quoted, 265 -66n7

E

Echaurren, Matta, 73

Eliot, T. S., 182

Eluard, Paul, 236 -38, 239

F

fauvism, 6 , 10 , 22 , 54 , 115

Flaubert, Gustave, 50

Foucault, Michel, 78 , 246 , 250 -51;

quoted, 250 -51

Fournel, Victor, quoted, 45

Fra Angelico, 223

France: education, 227 , 258 n8;

Third Republic, 54

freedom, in Duchamp's work, 28 , 161 -62, 165 , 202 , 235 -36, 238 -41, 246

French Revolution (1789), 216 , 248

Freud, Sigmund, 32 , 126 , 198 , 200 , 241 , 269 n24

Fressingeas, Yvonne, 190 , 192 -93, 198

futurism, 6 , 11 , 54 -55, 57 , 61 , 235 ;

and Duchamp, 39 , 61 , 63 -66;

Futurist Manifesto of Painting,57

G

Gleizes, Albert, 3 , 10 , 86 , 129 , 238 , 258 n1;

On Cubism, 3 , 51 -53, 207 , 259 n15


288

Golding, John, 61

Goncourt, Jules and Edmond de, 7

Gopnick, Adam, 179

Gough-Cooper, Jennifer, 190 , 255 n12, 267 n8

Gourmont, Rémy de, 49 -50, 139 , 149 , 165

Greenberg, Clement, 6 , 117 , 118

Guattari, Félix, 273 n15

H

Habermas, Jürgen, 274 n17

Halberstadt, Vitaly, 210

Hamlet, 150

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 181

Heller, Erich, 181 -82, 245

Herbert, Robert, 42 -43, 45

Hofmann, Werner, 183

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 183 , 245

Hofstra College, 178

homosexuality, 198 -99.

See also sexuality, in Duchamp's work;

Roussel, Raymond: and sexuality

Hugo, Victor, 77 , 80 -81

humor, in Duchamp's work, 7 , 20 -21, 32 , 132 , 139 , 146 , 158 -59.

See also puns, in Duchamp's work

I

I Ching, 244

identity (of persons).

See selfhood, as motif in Duchamp's work;

subjectivity, as motif in Duchamp's work

impressionism, 6 , 7 , 10 , 38 , 42 -48, 52 , 115 , 178 , 181 , 242

individualism, 10 -11, 149 , 165 , 216 -17.

See also selfhood, as motif in Duchamp's work; subjectivity, as motif in Duchamp's work

industrial revolution, 216 .

See also mechanism, in Duchamp's work

inframince, 101 -2

irony, in Duchamp's work, 26 , 38 , 72 , 87 -93, 114 , 131 -32, 138 -41, 147 , 171 , 176 , 183 , 225

Izenberg, Gerald N., 261 n17

J

James, William, 187

Janet, Pierre, 80 , 83 ;

From Agony to Ecstasy,80

Jarry, Alfred, 17 , 78 , 146 ;

"'pataphysics," 164 -65, 171

Juilliard School of Music, 244

K

Kandinsky, Vassily, 10 , 61 , 66 ;

On the Spiritual in Art,61

Kerbellec, Philippe, 83

Klimt, Gustav, 4 -6

Krauss, Rosalind, 254 -55n12, 262 n33;

quoted, 249

Kupka, Frank, 66

L

Lacan, Jacques, 266 n7

Laforgue, Jules, 38 , 51 , 59 , 99 , 117 , 162 , 183 , 203 , 231 ;

Autres complaintes,263 n9;

"Comice agricole," 120 ;

on habit, 117 ;

and language, 149 -51;

"Once More to This Star," 38

La Fresnaye, Roger de, 231

language, and Duchamp, 11 , 68 -69, 71 -73, 74 , 84 -85, 90 , 119 -20, 126 -28, 210 , 232 -33, 250 ;

and Disks Inscribed with Puns,174 -76;

and Fresh Widow,166 -68, 173 -74;

Laforgue as predecessor, 149 -51;

Mallarmé as predecessor, 148 -49;

projects for new languages, 152 -55;

and Three Standard Stoppages,166 ;

used in works, 155 -59

Larousse dictionary, 152

Latin quarter, 86

Lebel, Robert, 18 , 31 , 68 , 73 , 97 , 191 , 200

Léger, Fernand, 231 , 263 n10

Leiris, Eugène, 260 n27

Leiris, Michel, 259 -60n27

Leonardo da Vinci, 139 -41, 223

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 265 n2

Lodge, David, Small World,160

Londe, Albert, 258 n4

Lyotard, Jean-François, 249 -50, 251


289

M

Macy's, 231

Mallarmé Stéphane, 14 , 28 , 48 -50, 56 -57, 117 , 183 , 250 , 257 n25;

and language, 148 -49;

and Paul Valéry, 204

Man, Paul de, 159

Manet, Edouard, 4 , 7 , 8 , 42 -43, 48 ;

Olympia, 4 , 5;

The Railroad,42 -43, 43

Marey, Etienne-Jules, 58 , 66 -67

Marquis, Alice G., 31 ;

quoted, 264 n15

Martins, Maria, 197

Matisse, Henri, 12 , 22 , 256 n13

Matisse, Paul, 29 , 96 , 194 , 260 n3

Matisse, Pierre, 194

mechanism, in Duchamp's work, 66 , 69 -72, 89 -91, 178 , 263 n10.

See also Duchamp, Marcel, works and writings: readymades

Mercurius, 34

Metzinger, Jean, 3 , 10 , 86 , 238 , 258 n1;

On Cubism, 3 , 51 -53, 207 , 259 n15

Michelson, Annette, 273 n10

modernism, 4 , 10 , 46 -53;

and America, 7 , 130 ;

and crafts, 177 -78;

and commerce, 179 ;

and dimensionality, 100 -101;

and individualism, 48 -50, 51 -53;

and industry, 56 -58, 82 , 178 -79;

and insanity, 246 ;

and language, 49 -50, 82 ;

and politics, 7 , 231 -32

(see also Duchamp, Marcel: and politics);

and the public, 4 -9, 115 -16, 251 -52;

and sexuality, 98 -99

(see also Duchamp, Marcel: and sexuality);

and subjectivity, 12 -15

(see also subjectivity, as motif in Duchamp's work);

and urban life, 42 -48, 242

Monet, Claude, 46 -47, 48 ;

The Gare Saint-Lazare,47 , 47

Monte Carlo, 163 -64

Montjoie! (Paris), 245

Montmartre, 17 , 20 , 35 , 55 -56, 215

Morris, William, 178

motion, in Duchamp's work, 56 -58, 60 -61, 63 -66, 73 -74, 87 , 122 -25, 172 -74, 263 n10

Mougins, France, 189

Murger, Henri, 215 , 217

Museum of Modern Art (New York), 73

Museum of the City of New York, 187

museums, and Duchamp, 179 -80, 230 , 266 - 67 n22.

See also Philadelphia Museum of Art

music, in Duchamp's work, 20 , 21 ,22 , 122 -24

mystery, as motif in Duchamp's work, 35 -38, 52 , 66 , 69 , 71 , 84 -85

mysticism, 35 ;

Eastern, 244

N

Napoleonic nobility, 78

Nesbit, Molly, 258 n8

Neuilly, 39 , 86

New York City. See Armory Show;

Duchamp, Marcel: and America;

Society of Independent Artists (New York)

New York Evening World,131

New York State Chess Association, 211

Nice, 189

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 249 -50

North Africa, 54 , 220

Norton, Louise, 137 , 139 ;

"Buddha of the Bathroom," 139

nude, in art, 2 , 4 -6;

in Duchamp's work, 35 -41, 63 -67, 73 , 91 , 95 -96, 107 -8, 110 -14, 212 .

See also Duchamp, Marcel, works and writings: Large Glass, The

O

Old Regime, 216

P

Palermo, 79

Paris, 3 , 20 , 42 -47, 59 , 86 ;

Salon d'Automne, 22 ;

Salon des Indépendants, 3 , 61 , 67 , 136

Paris Commune (1871), 227


290

Pasadena Art Museum, 209

Pater, Walter, 125

Paz, Octavio, 254 n10

Peterson, Elmer, 119

Philadephia Museum of Art, 3 , 99 , 107 -8, 110 , 114 , 180

photography, 58 ;

as influence in Duchamp's work, 1 -2, 66 -67, 91 , 153 -54;

as record of Duchamp's work, 137 , 163 - 64

Picabia, Francis, 4 , 41 , 66 , 75 , 77 , 90 , 129 , 141 , 188 -89, 231 , 258 n2, 267 -68n8

Picasso, Pablo, 10 , 12 , 60 , 73 , 231 , 235 , 236 -38, 239 , 240 ;

Les Demoiselles d'Alvignon,54

Pierrot, 150

Poe, Edgar Allan, 50

postimpressionism, 6

postmodernism, 228 , 248 -49, 251 , 273 -74

Proust, Marcel, 78 , 199

Puccini, Giacomo, 215

puns, in Duchamp's work, 22 , 59 , 68 , 119 -22, 134 , 139 , 148 , 166 , 174 , 180 -81, 183 , 231 , 262 -63nn 8 , 10

Puteaux, France, 51 , 87

Q

Quinn, John, 180

R

railroads, 42 -43, 58 -59, 121

Ray, Man, 143 -44, 163 , 180 , 188 -90, 193 , 208 ;

photograph of Dust Breeding, 163 ;

photograph of Duchamp as Rrose Sélavy, 144

realism, 47 .

See also Courbet, Gustave; retinal art

Recalcati, Antonio, quoted, 206

Redon, Odilon, 50 , 51 , 253 n1;

Melancholy, 51

retinal art, 259 n15;

and Duchamp's critique of, 68 , 111 -14, 128 , 148 , 178 , 181 -82

Retté Adolph, 183

revolution of 1905 (Russia), 54

Reynolds, Mary, 193 -94, 198

Rimbaud, Arthur, 14 , 17 , 78 , 146 , 218 -21, 226 -28, 233 , 234 , 250 ;

and selfhood, 226 -28;

"Le Bateau ivre," 220 ;

Les Illuminations,220 ;

"Solde," 220

Rire, Le (Paris), 20

Roché Henri-Pierre, 137 , 180 , 185 -86, 191 -93, 198 , 215 , 231 , 263 -64nn 12 , 15 , 267 n1, 273 n10;

Jules et Jim,192 , 268 n17;

Victor, 192 , 193 -94

Rochlitz, Rainer, 274 n18

romanticism, 8 , 47 , 77 , 183 , 226

Rostand, Edmond, 78

Rouen, 20 , 59 , 91

Roussel, Raymond, 14 , 183 , 199 , 200 , 259 -60n27, 269 n28;

and the avantgarde, 75 -78;

death of, 260 n27;

as influence on Duchamp, 75 -85, 87 , 90 -91, 93 , 114 , 122 ;

and language, 76 -78;

and sexuality, 79 -80, 83 ;

How I Wrote Some of My Books,76 , 80 , 114 ;

Impressions of Africa,75 , 77 , 83 , 90 ;

Locus Solus,77 , 80 , 81 -82;

"Parmi les noirs," 76

Rubin, William, 73

Ruskin, John, 178

S

Salon des Indépendants. See Paris: Salon des Indépendants

Sarrazin-Levassor, Lydie (Duchamp), 118 -90, 192 , 267 -68n8

Schiller, Friedrich, 181

Schwarz, Arturo, 33 -35, 263 n11

sculpture, Greek, 181

Seitz, William, 151 -52, 159

Sélavy, Rrose. See Duchamp, Marcel: as "Rrose Sélavy"

selfhood, as motif in Duchamp's work, 13 -15, 28 , 30 , 116 -18, 149 -51, 204 -7, 225 -29, 233 . See also subjectivity, as motif in Duchamp's work

Serre, Jeanne, 191


291

sexuality, in Duchamp's work, 20 , 22 , 26 -28, 31 -35, 59 -60, 73 -74, 94 -96, 104 -5, 113 -14, 119 -20, 125 -26, 139 -43, 152 , 181 , 184 -202, 208 -10, 256 .

See also Duchamp, Marcel: and sexuality

Shakespeare, 80

simultaneism, 56 -58, 61

Soby, James Thrall, 267 n22

Société Anonyme, 180

Society of Independent Artists (New York), 136 -37

Soirées de Paris, Les,56

sonata, musical form of, 244 -46

Spain, 108

Spate, Virginia, 66 , 258 n2;

quoted, 259 n17

spiritualism, 12 ;

and Duchamp, 27 .

See also alchemy; mysticism

Steefel, Lawrence D., Jr., 259 n21

Stein, Gertrude, 137

Steinberg, Leo, 253 n7

Stettheimer, Carrie, 187 , 188

Stettheimer, Ettie, 187 -88, 199 ;

Love Days, 187 -88

Stettheimer, Florine, 187

Stieglitz, Alfred, 130 , 137 , 199 ;

photograph of Fountain,138

style, artistic, and Duchamp, 22 , 116 -18, 132 , 134 , 178 , 236 , 238 -39

subjectivity, as motif in Duchamp's work, 12 -15, 45 -53, 58 , 66 , 69 , 78 , 84 -85, 181 , 226 -29, 236 , 238 , 240 -46, 251 -52.

See also selfhood, as motif in Duchamp's work

Suquet, Jean, 261 n7

surrealism, 6 , 10 , 11 , 14 , 146 , 198 , 227 , 246

Sweeney, James Johnson, 266 -67n22

Switzerland, 110 , 141

symbolism, 6 , 10 , 28 , 47 , 48 , 165 , 242 , 258 n1.

See also Mallarmé Stéphane;

Redon, Odilon 391,141

T

titles of works, Duchamp and, 31 , 36 -38, 41 , 52 , 59 , 60 , 93 -94, 133 , 134 , 148 , 155 , 158

Truffaut, François, 192

Turnell, Martin, 98

V

Valéry, Paul, 14 , 202 -4, 240 -41, 244 , 246 ;

and language, 203 ;

and Mallarmé 204 ;

and selfhood, 204

Van Gogh, Vincent, 253 n1

Van Vechten, Carl, 137

Varèse, Edgard, 185

Varnedoe, Kirk, 179 , 261 n20

Vekony, Rose, 260 n4

Verne, Jules, 78 ;

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea,82

Villon, Jacques. See Duchamp, Gaston

W

Warnod, André, 57 , 63

Wasser, Julian, 210 , 270 n38;

photograph of Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz playing chess, 1963, 209

Waste, Henri. See Stettheimer, Ettie

Weber, Max, 9

Weiss, Jeffrey Steven, 263 n10

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 181

Winnicott, D. W., 237

Wood, Beatrice, 137 , 139 , 184 -87, 191 , 192 , 199 , 200 , 267 n1, 273 n10

Woolworth Building, 134

World War I, 6 , 54 , 129 , 248

World War II, 193

X

x-rays, 27 , 56

Z

Zapp, Morris, 160

Zayas, Marius de, 129 -30

Zola, Emile, The Masterpiece,46


 

Preferred Citation: Seigel, Jerrold. The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  1995. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9h4nb688/