Pictorial Nominalism. On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade

Beginning with the instance in 1912 when Marcel Duchamp wrote in a note to himself, “No more painting, get a job,” Thierry de Duve reviews in Pictorial Nominalism the implications of the readymade for art and representation. Arguing that the readymade belongs to that moment in the history of painting when both figuration and the practice of painting become “impossible,” de Duve presents a psychoanalytically informed account of the birth of abstraction.Differing considerably from such thinkers as Clement Greenberg and Peter Burger, de Duve demonstrates that the readymade is the link between painting in particular and art at large.

Details

Type

Book

Place of publication

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Year

1991

Number of pages

222 pages

ISBN

0816615659

Open stacks or available on request

Available on request

Illustrations

Yes

Bibliography

No

UDC code and author sign

709.201 Duc

Volumes

1

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