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Ambitious, persuasive, illuminating, and sometimes bracingly provocative in its efforts to demystify the `legends' of modern art. Didier Maleuvre makes striking observations and arguments particularly in relation to the nature of `unfinished' art and the `aristocracy' of artists such as Marcel Duchamp, which diverge compellingly from established understandings about such matters-and which I imagine students would find particularly beneficial as they grapple with some of their frustrations with discussing modern art. * Rona Cran, Lecturer in 20th-Century American Literature, University of Birmingham, UK * Didier Maleuvre tells a tale that is quixotically novel. The Legends of the Modern reveals how modern artists tilt at the windmills of their own modernity-`out with the old' along with `out with the new.' * James Panero, Executive Editor of The New Criterion *

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Didier Maleuvre is Professor of Comparative Literature and French Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is the author of Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art (1999), The Religion of Reality: Inquiry into the Self, Art, and Transcendence (2006), The Horizon: A History of our Infinite Longing (2011), and The Art of Civilization: A Bourgeois History (2016).

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