In his captivating essays, the renowned Duchamp expert Stefan Banz explains, among other things...Why it was not Walter Hopps who mounted Duchamp's first solo exhibition in a public institution, but Max Bill...Or what exactly Joseph Beuys had misunderstood about Duchamp when he performed, The Silence of Marcel Duchamp is Overrated...Or how Fischli & Weiss appropriated Duchamp's unrealized idea for a work titled, Équilibre...Or that Ai Weiwei cites Duchamp in almost all his major works, and the tremendous influence that Jules Verne had on the artistic approach of this great avant-gardist...German, French and English text.