Marcel Duchamp’s famous Bottle Rack was to be a work without art, something made without ‘artistic handiwork.’ Taking a fresh look, Lars Blunck shows in this publication, designed by Stefan Banz, how strongly Duchamp, using irony and playing with words, turned against the painterly handiwork of his time—and remained committed to it by opposing painting with a ‘non-artistic handiwork’: a handiwork after handiwork.
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