Lewis Kachur hands us a free time-travel ticket, with himself as marvelous pilot. Transporting us into the thick inventions of late Surrealist exhibitions, he gives us the ravishing gift of being there, present at the birthing and, as well, the seeding of so much installation and site-specific art to come decades later. For artists now who feel tied to Grandfather Marcel without having known him, Kachur's work vividly opens up the real moves of Duchamp's reinvention of what it is to be an artist. Revealing secret interior paths of communication among artists that flow synaptically across generations, this sumptuous work points to a new holistic way to understand art. -- Mierle Laderman Ukeles, artist A splendid analysis of the late Surrealist exhibitions. Anyone interested in Surrealist art would want this book; anyone interested in the consideration of display in twentieth-century art must have this book. -- Richard Martin (1945-1999), former curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art Perceptive, fascinating, and written with pleasure and delight. The reciprocal exchange between art work and its context is presented with a steady, at times inspired, sense of inquiry. -- Brian O'Doherty, writer
Lewis Kachur is Associate Professor of Art History at Kean University, New Jersey.
"Anyone specializing in the history of Surrealism or the history of installation art will find this book essential reading." - John A. Walker, The Art Book "Unique and perceptive research... an exacting and truly exciting visual and verbal coverage of the exhibitions. A remarkable and insightful narrative of installation art's beginnings [as well as] of the environments of the 1960s as a bridge to installation art's solidification into a genre." - Petra Rigby Watson, Parachute "A compulsive and beautifully presented read for those with an interest in the key debates surrounding the body and its interiors/exteriors." - David Gove Surman, Leonardo
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