DUCHAMP,MARCEL. Franklin,Paul B. — Please touch. Marcel Duchamp and the fetish.

London, Thaddaeus Ropac, [2021]. 127 pp. Col. & b./w. ills, incl. 2 fold. plts. Orig. hardcover (green paper-covered boards with print with white and black lettering). 4to. - New unused copy.Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Thaddaeus Ropac London (12 October-13 November 2021) and at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais (24 November 2021-29 January 2022). - Text in English. - - "As Duchamp adopted eroticism as his creative credo, he also drew upon certain premises associated with fetishism. The idea of the fetish - whether devotional items imbued with mystical powers or objects, materials and body parts invested with erotic potential - informed psychoanalytical theory in the early twentieth century. Rather than the psychosexual 'perversion' identified by Sigmund Freud and Alfred Binet, however, fetishism became a fundamental aspect of Duchamp's efforts to reorient the relationship between artist, artwork and viewer. [...] The exhibition is organised around five interrelated themes: the readymade as fetish object; the fetishization of miniature replicas and mechanical reproductions as originals; fetishism and gender play; fetish materials such as leather, vinyl, foam rubber and metallic paper; and, finally, Duchamp's fetishistic multiplication of his artistic identity, most notably in his drag persona Rose (later Rrose) Sélavy." [Exhibition description from host institution].