Die amerikanische Erfahrung, oder: Weshalb Marcel Duchamp in New York Werke ausstellen konnte, die keine Kunst sind

The American Experience, or: Why Marcel Duchamp Could Exhibit Works in New York that were not Art

This book contains the doctoral thesis by Katharina Neuburger, published by Verlag Walther König, Cologne. The design is lively and appealing, a reference to the revolutionary spirit that Duchamp sparked in the exhibition practice first of America and subsequently of Europe. Instead of a colored cover with white head and tail, this design principle goes against the grain with a white cover containing large, expansive, colored type and correspondingly colored head and tail. All this gives the book a strong presence as an object. This hardcover edition is cut flush with the book block, an edgeless form accentuated with a matching color sleeve carrying the usual back cover information. This gives readers a little detour before they can access the book, a roundabout approach Duchamp would have approved of.