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)

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)

”Marcel Duchamp, one of this century’s pioneer artists, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with impressionism into t field with impressionism into t field where language, thought and vision act upon one another, There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental an...(展开全部)