Adam Begley

The effortless magnetism of Marcel Duchamp

The artist whose ‘Fountain’ caused an outcry in 1917 was surprisingly easy, calm and detached – and irresistibly attractive to all who met him

Marcel Duchamp. [Alamy]

  • Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, Love and Art

    Ruth Brandon

    Pegasus, pp. 241, £21

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