# The Artwork Caught by the Tail

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- Authors: [George Baker](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-baker)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6251-486-6
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2010-09-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A new theory of the readymade via a new reading of Picabia and a new writing of Dada. The artist Francis Picabia—notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist—has emerged...