Kant After Duchamp

by Thierry de Duve

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262540940
• ISBN13: 9780262540940
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher