| Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Joselit, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0262600382 ISBN-13: 9780262600385 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2001 Annotation: There is not one Marcel Duchamp, but several. Within his oeuvre Duchamp practiced a variety of modernist idioms and invented an array of contradictory personas: artist and art dealer, conceptualist and craftsman, chess champion and dreamer, dandy and recluse. In "Infinite Regress," David Joselit considers the plurality of identities and practices within Duchamp's life and art between 1910 and 1941, conducting a synthetic reading of his early and middle career. Taking into account underacknowledged works and focusing on the conjunction of the machine and the commodity in Duchamp's art, Joselit notes a consistent opposition between the material world and various forms of measurement, inscription, and quantification. Challenging conventional accounts, he describes the readymade strategy not merely as a rejection of painting, but as a means of producing new models of the modern self. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Art | European - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Art | Individual Artists - General |
| Dewey: 709.2 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 7" W x 9" (0.92 lbs) 262 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Bois, Yve-Alain: - Yve-Alain Bois studied at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes under the guidance of Roland Barthes and Hubert Damisch. A founder of the French journal Macula, Bois is currently a professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.Buchloh, Benjamin H. D.: - Benjamin H. D. Buchloh is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and an editor of October magazine. He is the author of Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 (MIT Press) and other books.Baker, George: - George Baker is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an editor at October magazine and October Books. He is the editor of James Coleman (MIT Press) and a frequent contributor to Artforum.Joselit, David: - David Joselit is Distinguished Professor in the PhD Program in Art History at the Graduate Center at CUNY. He is the author of Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941, Feedback: Television against Democracy (both published by the MIT Press), American Art Since 1945, and After Art. |