Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Introduction 1
5. An Esoteric French Adolescence for Duchamp: Symbolist Culture and Occultism 13
6. The Invention of the Modern Alchemist-Artist 37
7. The Cultural Shaping of an Artist-Iconoclast: Duchamp in France, 1887–1915 65
8. Duchamp’s First Experiments in Esoteric and Alchemical Art, 1910–1912 97
9. Duchamp in New York with Esoteric Patrons and the Large Glass, 1915–1923 169
10. Alchemical Emblematics and the Ready-Mades, 1913–1923 225
11. The Esoteric Fourth Dimension and Laws of Chance, 1895–1923 265
12. The Circle Closes, 1923–1968 313
13. Epilogue 371
14. Notes 377
15. Bibliography 423
16. Index 459