Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company

Acknowledgments

xiii Acknowledgments This book was inspired by a conversation with Jacqueline Matisse Monnier at a conference organized by William Camfield at Rice University in Houston in 1997 in celebration of Marcel Duchamp’s groundbreaking presentation “The Creative Act” (1957). Her thoughtful remarks and generosity of spirit opened up for me new possibilities for engaging with Duchamp’s works in terms of questions of creativity and collaboration. This project also benefited from the encouragement and support of my late colleague, friend, and former teacher, Jean-François Lyotard, with whom I had shared some initial ideas about commodification. In various ways, exchanges with Craig Adcock, Thierry de Duve, Norman Bryson, Sheldon Nodelman, David Joselit, Marjorie Perloff, William Camfield, Elmer Peterson, Molly Nesbit, Thomas McEvilley, and Michael Schwartz helped fuel the book’s impetus and development. The institutional support of Emory University has proved invaluable in providing the time and financial resources for the book’s completion , in the form of a sabbatical leave and a grant by the University Research Council. I am also indebted to my research assistants who helped over the years to procure references, bibliographical materials, and images, along with artists’ rights and permissions: Jenny Davis, Jennifer Svienty, Joshua Backer, Gina Westbeld, and Starra Priestaff, who worked especially hard to help bring this book to completion. I also thank Suzanne Ramljak for her generous comments and editorial input on the first draft of this manuscript. Additional thanks are due those who helped in obtaining images and permissions: Holly Frisbee atthePhiladelphiaMuseumofArt,CristinO’KeefeAptowiczatArtists Rights Society, Michael Shulman at Magnum Photo, Richard Wilson, the Saatchi Gallery, the David Zwirner Gallery, the Ubu Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Tate Modern. Special thanks are due Arturo Schwarz (whose definitive catalog of Marcel Duchamp’s work was an invaluable resource) and Roberta Baj for their kind assistance in providing information and images. I am especially grateful to Doug Armato and Ed Dimendberg for their recognition of the potentialities of this project and for their continued support. I thank the manuscript’s anonymous readers for critical input and suggestions. Many thanks to all at the University of Minnesota Press involved in the book’s production: Danielle Kasprzak, who generously assisted in the manuscript’s editorial preparation; Daniel Ochsner, who patiently oversaw all aspects of the book’s production ; Jeenee Lee, the cover designer; and Doug Easton, the indexer. Special thanks are due Kathy Delfosse, whose talents as copy editor have enriched the text’s poetic resonance, stylistic flow, and playful humor. Finally, this book is dedicated to the two people whose love and support have nourished and sustained both the spirit and material realization of this book: to my dear father, Dr. Hugo Judovits, for the rigor, generosity, and kindness of his spirit, and to my loving husband, Hamish M. Caldwell, for his intellectual insights, joyful humor, and poetic sense of life, which have rendered this book considerably more interesting than it might otherwise have been. xiv / Acknowledgments ...