Kant after Duchamp
Author | : Thierry De Duve |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998-03-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780262540940 |
ISBN-13 | : 0262540940 |
Rating | : 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Kant after Duchamp brings together eight essays around a central thesis with many implications for the history of avant-gardes. Although Duchamp's ready mades 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 "this is art." De Duve employs this shift (replacing the word "beauty" by the word "art") in a rereading of Kant's Critique of Judgment that reveals the hidden links between the radical experiments of Duchamp and the Dadaists and mainstream pictorial modernism.