Infinite Regress : Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941 Paperback / softback
by David (Professor, Harvard University) Joselit
Part of the October Books series
Paperback / softback
Description
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. 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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:262 pages, 53 illus.; 53 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:23/02/2001
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- ISBN:9780262600385
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:262 pages, 53 illus.; 53 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:23/02/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780262600385
