New York: Rizzoli, 1975. First edition. Hardcover, 236pp., 7.5 x 12 inches.
Near Fine. Gently yellowed dust jacket with minimal markings. Faint rubbing to rear. Inside pages are clean and sharp, with no bumping or creasing.
Catalogue published in conjunction alongside a series of exhibitions on the subject of "Bachelor Machines," a term first used by Marcel Duchamp in connection with work that would later become "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even." Szeeman's introduction connects Duchamp's apparatus with Kafka's Penal Colony and works by Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and Max Ernst. Parallel text in English and Italian with contributions by Michel de Certeau, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Michel Serres, among others. Profusely illustrated.
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