Kant after Duchamp

Author(s)

• Duve, Thierry de

Bibliographic Information

Kant after Duchamp

Thierry de Duve

（October books）

MIT Press, 1998, c1996

1st MIT Press pbk. ed

• : pbk

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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Details

• NCID: BA35800040
• ISBN:
  • 0262540940
• LCCN: 95038235
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 484 p., [1] p. of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BH39
  • DC20 : 111/.85
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Aesthetics
  • LCSH : Aesthetics, Modern -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
  • LCSH : Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
  • LCSH : Modernism (Art) -- France
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA12985286