Pictorial nominalism : on Marcel Duchamp's passage from painting to the readymade

Author(s)

• Duve, Thierry de

Bibliographic Information

Pictorial nominalism : on Marcel Duchamp's passage from painting to the readymade

Thierry de Duve ; foreword by John Rajchman ; translation by Dana Polan with the author

（Theory and history of literature, v. 51）

University of Minnesota Press, c1991

• : pbk

Other Title

Nominalisme pictural

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Translation of: Nominalisme pictural

Description and Table of Contents

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.

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Details

• NCID: BA1282358X
• ISBN:
  • 0816615640
  • 9780816648597
• LCCN: 90011220
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Minneapolis
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 222 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : N6853.D8
  • DC20 : 709/.2
  • NDC8 : 723.35
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Modernism (Art)
  • LCSH : Nominalism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00291097