This book has a detailed description of the machinations Duchamp went through to get his urinal accepted as a work of art, from inventing the pseudonym, to getting the piece rejected, written about and even photographed by Stieglitz. Chapter 2 'Given the Richard Mutt Case' is quite a read. It balances the overabundance of blather needed to feel the power of this social manipulator of genius, with the facts needed to understand him.
