Il 1929 nell'immaginario collettivo è associato al crollo finanziario che, giovedì 24 ottobre, colpisce Wall Street prima di abbattersi su tutte le economie mondiali. Anche per il Surrealismo è l'anno di una crisi senza precedenti, di un "big bang" che, se in apparenza sembra segnarne la fine, si rivelerà in realtà all'origine della sua reinvenzione. Il 1929 vede infatti, tra l...(展开全部)

First published to great acclaim in 1996, New Yorker writer and art critic Calvin Tomkins’ biography of the influential artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) has been out of print for many years. Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is publishing a new and revised edition of the landmark biography to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Duchamp’s first Readymade, “Bicycle Wheel...(展开全部)

[美]卡尔文•汤姆金斯（Calvin Tomkins），《纽约客》杂志撰稿人，艺术评论家。曾经采访过杜尚，撰写《马塞尔·杜尚——午后访谈》（Marcel Duchamp：The Afternoon Interviews）《商人与收藏 : 大都会艺术博物馆创建记》（Merchants and Masterpieces:the Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art）

The works of René Magritte (1898 - 1967) and the ideas that underlie them are a special case both in the history of modern art and in surrealist painting. In the search for the "mystery" in which things and organisms are enveloped, Magritte created pictures which, taking everyday reality as their starting point, were to follow a different logic from that to which we are ac...(展开全部)

The works of René Magritte (1898 - 1967) and the ideas that underlie them are a special case both in the history of modern art and in surrealist painting. In the search for the "mystery" in which things and organisms are enveloped, Magritte created pictures which, taking everyday reality as their starting point, were to follow a different logic from that to which we are ac...(展开全部)

From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", René Magritte (1898–1967) created an echo chamber of object and image, name and thing, reality and representation. Like other Surrealist works, Magritte’s paintings combine a precise, mimetic technique with abnormal, alienating configurations which defy the laws of scal...(展开全部)

Kant after Duchamp brings together eight essays around a central thesis with many implications for the history of avant-gardes. Although Duchamp's readymades broke with all previously known styles, de Duve observes that he made the logic of modernist art practice the subject matter of his work, a shift in aesthetic judgment that replaced the classical "this is beautiful" with "...(展开全部)

Kant after Duchamp brings together eight essays around a central thesis with many implications for the history of avant-gardes. Although Duchamp's readymades broke with all previously known styles, de Duve observes that he made the logic of modernist art practice the subject matter of his work, a shift in aesthetic judgment that replaced the classical "this is beautiful" with "...(展开全部)