Thomas Girst
Prof. Thomas Girst (*1971), PhD, is the Global Head of BMW Group’s Cultural Engagement. His books on Duchamp have been translated into several languages, among them The Indefinite Duchamp and The Duchamp Dictionary.
While a high school student, aged seventeen, at Liverpool High School in upstate New York, I made a linocut of Duchamp’s 1914 version of The Chocolate Grinder for an appreciative Ms. Houston, my fine arts teacher. I also managed to convince my long-haired, Metallica-loving host-brother Derrick to take me on a road trip to Philadelphia with his pickup truck.
