Duchamp Looked at (from the Other Side) / Duchamp with (and Against) Lacan: (Undoing the Image 3)

by Éric Alliez

A detailed examination of the motivations and precise coordinates of Duchamp's break from painting into the field of the linguistic sign.

Matisse and Duchamp seem to incarnate ideal poles of the tension internal to modern art as it plunged into crisis the idea of the image--a polemical operation that opened the way to contemporary art's auto-problematization of experimental constructivism. Where Matisse subverted the aesthetic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913029670
• ISBN13: 9781913029678
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Urbanomic
• Length: 576 Pages