Kant after Duchamp (October Books)
Editorial Reviews Midwest Book Review Kant After Duchamp brings together eight essays around a central thesis with many implications for the history of avant-gardes. Marcel Ducham (Thierry de Duve observes) 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 "this is art". De Duve emplys this shift (replacing the word "beauty" by the word "art") in a rereading of Kan'ts "Critique of Judgment" that reveals the hidden links between the radical experiments of Duchamp and the Dadaists and mainstream pictorial modernism. These essays, all updated, are divided into four parts. Part I revolves around Duchamp's famous/infamous "Fountain". Part II explores Duchamp's passage from painting to the readymades, from art in particular to art in general. Part III looks at the aesthetic and ethical consequences of the replacement of "beauty" with "art" in Kant's "Critique of Judgement". Finally, part IV attempts to reconstruct an "archaeology" of modernism that paves the way for a renewed understanding of our postmodern condition. Kant After Duchamp is an important and insightful contribution to an insightful national understanding of the evolution of art, art appreciation, art education, and the undeniable political implications arising from the arts in the popular as well as governmental and academic discussions. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Book Description Kant after Duchamp brings together eight essays around a central thesis with many implications for the history of the avant-gardes. Although Duchamps readymades broke with all previously known styles, Thierry 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 "this is art." De Duve employs this shift in a re-reading of Kant's Critique of Judgment that reveals the hidden links between the radical experiments of Duchamp and the Dadaists and mainstream pictorial modernism. Kant after Duchamp (October Books)
Kant after Duchamp (October Books),Thierry deDuve,The MIT Press,0262540940,Art,Art & Art Instruction,History - General,Individual Artist,Art / Individual Artist
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