Duchamp on Tape: The Janis Family Interviews

This is the full transcript of a previously unpublished set of interviews conducted in 1953 with the art collectors Sidney and Harriet Janis and the artist Marcel Duchamp. In a series of interviews in the early 1950s, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) sat down with art collectors and gallerists Sidney and Harriet Janis for a wide-ranging conversation about his inspirations and working process, and his many, many opinions on the workings of the modern art world and its histories. The transcript of this previous