The Duchamp Effect

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This expanded edition of the fall 1994 special issue of October includes new essays by Sarat Maharaj and by Molly Nesbit and Naomi Sawelson-Gorse. It also includes the transcript of an exchange between T. J. Clark and Benjamin Buchloh which presents new responses to the problems raised by this immediately popular issue of the journal. The Duchamp Effect is an investigation of the historical reception of the work of Marcel Duchamp from the 1950s to the present, including interviews by Benjamin Buchloh , Elizabeth Armstrong , and Martha Buskirk and a round-table discussion of the Duchamp effect on conceptual art.Contents
Introduction, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh - What's Neo about the Neo-Avant-Garde?, Hal Foster - Typotranslating the Green Box, Sarat Maharaj - Three Conversations in 1985: Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Robert Morris, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh - Interviews with Ed Ruscha and Bruce Conner, Elizabeth Armstrong - Echoes of the Readymade: Critique of Pure Modernism, Thierryde Duve - Concept of Nothing: New Notes by Marcel Duchamp and Walter Arensberg, Molly Nesbit and Naomi Sawelson-Gorse - Interviews with Sherrie Levine, Louis Lawler, and Fred Wilson, Martha Buskirk - Thoroughly Modern Marcel, Martha Buskirk - Conceptual Art and the Reception of Duchamp, October Round Table - All the Things I Said about Duchamp: A Response to Benjamin Buchloh, T. J. Clark - Response to T. J. Clark, Benjamin Buchloh