A revised and expanded edition of one of the most original and important books ever written on this enigmatic artist.

Dawn Ades is Professor Emerita of the History and Theory of Art at the University of Essex. She has written extensively on Dada, Surrealism, photography and women artists, among other things. Publications include Dalí and Writings on Art and Anti-Art. Neil Cox is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Cubism and The Picasso Book, and has written numerous essays connecting art and philosophical ideas. David Hopkins is Professor of Art History at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of many books, most recently After Modern Art 1945-2017 and Dark Toys: Surrealism and the Culture of Childhood.

Foreword, Preface . 1.Origins . 2.Catholicism and the Symbolist Inheritance . 3.Passages . 4.Dry Art, 'The Retinal Shudder' and the Planning of the Large Glass . 5.The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (the Large Glass) . 6.The Readymades and 'Life on Credit' . 7.Optics and Film . 8.Anti-Art, Rrose Sélavy and Surrealism . 9.Replicas, Casts and the Infra-thin . 10.Etant donnés . Postscript - Duchamp after Duchamp . Chronology, Bibliography and Sources