Pictorial Nominalism - On Marcel Duchamp''s Passage From Painting to the Readymade

Informationen zum Autor Thierry de Duve, a native of Belgium, is an art historian.Dana Polan is professor of cinema and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. John Rajchman is professor of art at Columbia. Klappentext Reveals the invention of the readymade as a critical point in contemporary art. Zusammenfassung Reveals the invention of the readymade as a critical point in contemporary art. Arguing that the readymade belongs to that moment in the history of painting when both figuration and the practice of painting become "impossible," this book presents a psychoanalytically informed account of the birth of abstraction.

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• Authors: Thierry de Duve, Thierry de Duve, Duve Thierry de
• Assisted by: Dana Polan (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2005
• EAN: 9780816648597
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-4859-7
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Theory & History of Literature S.; Theory and History of Literature; Theory & History of Literature S.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history