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Author Housefield, James, author.

Title Playing with earth and sky : astronomy, geography, and the art of Marcel Duchamp / James Housefield
Published Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)
Series Interfaces: studies in visual culture
Interfaces, studies in visual culture.
Contents Introduction: Playing with Earth and Sky -- Spaces of Experience: Geography, Astronomy, and Display -- Landscapes of Chance: Cosmic Metaphors and Literary Stars -- Aviation and Substitution: Celestial and Terrestrial Geographies of the Readymades -- From Marcel to Rrose: Starry Messengers and Astral Identities -- Interstellar Voyages and Surrealist Geographies: The Paris World's Fair, Palais de la découverte, and Exposition internationale du surréalisme -- Conclusion: Landscape Defied, the Heavens Denied
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2016)
Subject Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 fast
Subject Astronomy in art.
Geography in art.
ART -- History -- General.
Astronomy in art
Geography in art
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016002646
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