Duchamp. A ready-made life. Graphic biography

Written by Rossi Sergio
Illustrated by Racca Emanuele

  • Graphic Novel
  • Age group: 16 and up
  • Pages: 112
  • Format: 17.8 x 25 cm
  • Hardcover
  • RP: 19.90 euros

Between a cigar and a game of chess, Duchamp played with the art world, challenged it, questioned what was art and what was not, changed the reality around him, and did so by spanning the entire 20th century as an absolute protagonist. His influence involves all, or almost all, of the arts, from painting to film, to the point that Pablo Picasso said that contemporary artists robbed Duchamp’s warehouse by merely changing the packaging. Indeed, his work ranges from paintings to installations, via ready-mades, films and chess manuals. Each time, Duchamp does not respond to traditional canons and strives to stimulate all the viewer’s senses through forms that often arise from machines and artificial constructions, capable of generating an aesthetic effect that evolves and changes over time. Emanuele Racca and Sergio Rossi recount his genius, and the human weight that feeds it, through a graphic novel that restores irony, pivotal moments, encounters passed into history and intimacy, and that bewitches with its blue, gray and black tinted plates and its always vivid lines.

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