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

Details

Keywords

Dada, Readymade

Type

Book

Place of publication

Cambridge

Publisher

MIT Press

Year

1998

Number of pages

484 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9780262540940

Open stacks or available on request

Available on request

Illustrations

Yes

Bibliography

No

UDC code and author sign

701.2 Duv

Volumes

1

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