20th century art history
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appropriation
art and the mind
art history
artistic conventions
artistic genres
artistic modes
Author_Dalia Judovitz
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conceptual art
cubism
culture
dada
double entendres
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fountain and given
french american artist
gender studies
marcel duchamp
mechanical reproduction
modernism
modernity
modes of production
nature
perception
plastic arts
puns
representation in art
the illuminating gas
the large glass
the waterfall
word games
Product details
- ISBN 9780520213760
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 175 x 251mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 1998
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect - and greater controversy - than Marcel Duchamp. Through a careful 'unpacking' of his major works, Dalia Judovitz finds that Duchamp may well have the last laugh. She examines how he interpreted notions of mechanical reproduction in order to redefine the meaning and value of the art object, the artist, and artistic production. Judovitz begins with Duchamp's supposed abandonment of painting and his subsequent return to material that mimics art without being readily classifiable as such. Her book questions his paradoxical renunciation of pictorial and artistic conventions while continuing to evoke and speculatively draw upon them. She offers insightful analyses of his major works including "The Large Glass", "Fountain" and "Given - the waterfall, the illuminating gas". Duchamp, a poser and solver of problems, occupied himself with issues of genre, gender, and representation. His puns, double entendres, and word games become poetic machines, all part of his intellectual quest for the very limits of nature, culture, and perception.
Judovitz demonstrates how Duchamp's redefinition of artistic modes of production through reproduction opens up modernism to more speculative explorations, while clearing the ground for the aesthetic of appropriation central to postmodernism.
Dalia Judovitz is Professor and Chair in the Department of French and Italian at Emory University. She is author of Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: The Origins of Modernity (1988) and coeditor of Dialectic and Narrative (1993).
