With effortless provocation, Duchamp created works beyond the known genres. Art, to his mind, was to transcend the superficially visible. Duchamp turned everyday objects into art; playing chess became a form of mental drawing, and with Rose Sélavy he created his female alter ego. The volume shows works from the Duchamp collection at Schwerin: caricatures that are groundbreaking for his handling of image and language; the cosmos of the "Big Glass", in which he constructed the view of an actually invisible, multi-dimensional world; graphics, objects and the notes related to the "Green Box", which give insight into the complexity of his intellectual world; readymades, whose bewildering titles inspire