| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 214 pages) : illustrations |
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Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts |
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Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
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| Contents |
The idea of the fabrication -- The 3 standard stoppages in the context of the large glass. The pane of glass as a materialized plane intersecting the visual pyramid -- Depersonalizing straight lines. The thread as a metaphor of the visual ray -- The 3 standard stoppages as paintings. Gravity and line : the "rephysicalization" of the ideal straight -- Duchamp's application of the new standard measures -- Painting of chance. Art as an experiment -- 1936 : Duchamp transforms the painting into an experimental setup. On the title : Roussel's "method" -- An excursion into the world of shop signs and windows -- Humorous application of non-Euclidean geometry. A brief digression on Tu m' -- The crisis of the scientific concept of truth -- Pataphysics, chance, and the aesthetics of the possible -- Radical individualism |
| Summary |
Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an ""artist-engineer-scientist, "" a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet a complete portrait of Duchamp and his multiple influences draws a different picture. In his 3 Standard Stoppages (1913-1914), a work that uses chance as an artistic medium, we see how far Duchamp subverted scientism in favor of a radical individualistic aesthetic and experimental vision. Unlike the Dadaists, Duchamp did more than dismiss or negate the authority of science. He pushed scien |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968. 3 standard stoppages.
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Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 fast |
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ART -- Individual Artists -- Artists' Books.
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ART -- Individual Artists -- Essays.
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ART -- Individual Artists -- Monographs.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brogden, John (Translator)
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| LC no. |
2009043390 |
| ISBN |
9780231519748 |
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0231519745 |
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