Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance: Art as Experiment

by Herbert Molderings

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 Poincar . 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231147627
• ISBN13: 9780231147620
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher