Table of Contents

  1. Series page
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Series Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 The Metrologist: On Marcel Duchamp’s Three Standard Stoppages
  10. Chapter 2 The Object-Subject: Marcel Broodthaers, Merchant of the Insincere
  11. Chapter 3 A Sense of Umour: Jacques Vaché
  12. Chapter 4 The Ridiculous Subject
  13. Chapter 5 Counting for Nothing: The Nihilist
  14. Chapter 6 Slippered Negligence: The Dandy
  15. Chapter 7 The Happy Melancholic
  16. Conclusion: A Hole in a Thing It Is Not
  17. Index

List of Illustrations

  1. Figure 1.1 International Collectors Society, sale brochure cover, 1967. Marcel Duchamp showing The Marcel Duchamp Art Medal based on Drain Stopper. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
  2. Figure 2.1 Portrait of Marcel Broodthaers in Action, date unknown, silver gelatin print on Leonar paper, 17.5 × 12.5 cm / 6.9 × 4.9 inches Photography by Maria Gilissen, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016.
  3. Figure 2.2 Marcel Broodthaers, Pense-Bête, 1964, books, paper, plaster, and plastic balls on wood base, 30 × 85 × 43 cm. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016. Courtesy of S.M.A.K. Museum, Ghent. Photo by Dirk Pauwels.
  4. Figure 3.1 Self-portrait by Jacques Vaché, as it appeared in Lettres de guerre (Paris: au Sans pareil, 1919).
  5. Figure 8.1 Isa Genzken, X-Ray, photo, 1991. 100 × 80 cm. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin/New York © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016.

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