What we are presented with is a piece of fiction by Roché called 'Victor,' which is basically a memoir with the names changed to protect the guilty. In fact, this little volume is a perfect snapshot of bohemian life in New York. At the time, sort of combination of a party girl and hardcore aesthetic person.

The two Frenchmen came to reside in New York City, where they met Ms. The book is both a document, a memoir, as well as fiction regarding three major figures in the early 20th century Arts: Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood and of course Marcel Duchamp. Probably the best Saturday in my life, so far. Today, I didn't want to be be disturbed or interrupted while reading '3 New Dadas and The Blind Man.' So I took a series of bus trips through out Los Angeles, for the purpose of reading this book from the beginning to the end.

They've been around for years, yet they are releasing really important books. The introduction and commentary is by Dawn Ades, the well-known scholar of Dada and Surrealism.Ītlas Press, out of London (and distributed by D.A.P.) always goes the extra mile. Beatrice Wood’s account of these events is taken from her memoirs she went on to become a celebrated ceramicist, dying in 1998 aged 105. Roché, a lifelong friend of Duchamp, appears to have been something of a devotee of triangular relationships, and went on to write a more famous novel on the topic (also autobiographical), Jules et Jim -later made into a film by François Truffaut. The novel offers interesting insights into the sexual politics of the period, when a woman could be arrested or blackmailed for spending the night with a man to whom she was not married. Although unfinished, Roché’s text offers a unique account of New York Dada, all of whose principal characters and events make an Francis Picabia, Arthur Cravan, the Arensbergs and their soirées, the Blind Man’s Ball and the scandal of Duchamp’s 'Fountain' at the Independents exhibition, a pivotal moment in modern art. The principal text is the first English translation of Roché’s novel Victor, an account of his friendship with Duchamp (nicknamed Victor by his close friends in those days). Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of its protagonists and also reprints in facsimile the Dadaist magazine they produced together in New York in 1917: The Blind Man.

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