Kant After Duchamp

Writing in a creative way, Thierry de Duve's book offer a review of Kantianism after the avant-garde and seeks to contextualise this school of thought into the modern and postmodern era.

'Kant after Duchamp brings together eight essays around a central thesis with many implications for the history of the avant-gardes. Although Duchamp's 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.' (From publisher's website)

Includes an index.

Alternative title

An October Book

Access level

Onsite

author

Thierry DE DUVE

publisher

The MIT Press (Cambridge, United States)

Location code

REF.DTD

Language

English

Keyword

cultural studies, modernism

Publication/Creation date

1998

No of pages

500

ISBN / ISSN

9780262540940

No of copies

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Part I: The Universal and the Singular

1. Art was a Proper Name

2. Given the Richard Mutt Case

Part II: The Specific and the Generic

3. The Readymade and the Tube of Paint

4. The Monotone and the Blank Canvas

Part III: Anything and Everything

5. Kant after Duchamp

6. Do Whatever

Part IV: After and Before

7. Archaeology of Pure Modernism

8. Archaeology of Practical Modernism

Citation

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