ABSTRACT
American art critic John Canaday’s article in the New York Times, published a few days after Given was revealed to the public, summarizes the work’s impact (fig. 3.1):
A few years earlier, in 1966, just after Given was finished, Duchamp inscribed the title, the dates and his signature on the right arm of the female nude, and prepared a notebook of instructions, a manual for taking it apart and reassembling it (fig. 3.2).
