Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
ISBN: 978-0-520-21376-0
Verlag: University of California Press
Judovitz begins with Duchamp's supposed abandonment of painting and his subsequent return to material that mimics art without being readily classifiable as such. Her book questions his paradoxical renunciation of pictorial and artistic conventions while continuing to evoke and speculatively draw upon them. She offers insightful analyses of his major works including The Large Glass, Fountain and Given 1) the waterfall, 2) the illuminating gas.
Duchamp, a poser and solver of problems, occupied himself with issues of genre, gender, and representation. His puns, double entendres, and word games become poetic machines, all part of his intellectual quest for the very limits of nature, culture, and perception. Judovitz demonstrates how Duchamp's redefinition of artistic modes of production through reproduction opens up modernism to more speculative explorations, while clearing the ground for the aesthetic of appropriation central to postmodernism.