Alchemist of the avant-garde. The case of Marcel Duchamp

Introduction: prosecuting the Duchamp case; An esoteric French adolescence for Duchamp: symbolist culture and occultism; The invetion of the modern alchemist-artist; The cultural shaping of an artist-iconoclast: Duchamp in France, 1887-1915; Duchamp´s first experiments in esoteric and alchemical art, 1910-1912; Duchamp in New York with esoteric patrons and the Large Glass, 1915-1923; Alchemical emblematics and the ready mades, 1913-1923; The esoteric fourth dimension and laws of chance, 1895-1923; The circle closes, 1923-1968; Epilogue: the prosecution rests.