| Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade Volume 51 Contributor(s): de Duve, Thierry (Author) |
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ISBN: 081664859X ISBN-13: 9780816648597 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $25.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2005 Annotation: Beginning with the instance in 1912 when Marcel Duchamp wrote in a note to himself, "No more painting, get a job," Thierry de Duve reviews in Pictorial Nominalism the implications of the readymade for art and representation. Arguing that the readymade belongs to that moment in the history of painting when both figuration and the practice of painting become "impossible," de Duve presents a psychoanalytically informed account of the birth of abstraction. Differing considerably from such thinkers as Clement Greenberg and Peter Burger, de Duve demonstrates that the readymade is the link between painting in particular and art at large. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) - Art | Individual Artists - General |
| Dewey: 709.2 |
| Series: Theory and History of Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 8.96" (0.75 lbs) 246 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Beginning with the instance in 1912 when Marcel Duchamp wrote in a note to himself, "No more painting, get a job," Thierry de Duve reviews in Pictorial Nominalism the implications of the readymade for art and representation. Arguing that the readymade belongs to that moment in the history of painting when both figuration and the practice of painting become "impossible," de Duve presents a psychoanalytically informed account of the birth of abstraction.Differing considerably from such thinkers as Clement Greenberg and Peter Burger, de Duve demonstrates that the readymade is the link between painting in particular and art at large. |