Playing with Earth and Sky
Astronomy, Geography, and the Art of Marcel Duchamp
Distributed for Dartmouth College Press
312 pages
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6 x 9
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Table of Contents

Contents
List of Color Plates • Acknowledgments • Note to the Reader • 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 • Notes • Bibliography • Index
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