Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-457) and index
An esoteric French adolescence for Duchamp: symbolist culture and occultism -- The invention of the modern alchemist-artist -- The cultural shaping of an artist-iconoclast: Duchamp in France, 1887-1915 -- Duchamp's first experiments in esoteric and alchemical art, 1910-1912 -- Duchamp in New York with esoteric patrons and the large glass, 1915-1923 -- Alchemical emblematics and the ready-mades, 1913-1923 -- The esoteric fourth dimension and laws of chance, 1895-1923 -- The circle closes, 1923-1968
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Duchamp, Marcel,1887-1968-- Criticism and interpretation