Pictorial nominalism: on marcel duchamp's passage from painting to the readymade
Auteur :
De Duve, Thierry
Éditeur :
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN :
9780816648597
Date de publication :
1 oct. 2005
Dimensions :
22,9 x 14,9 x 3,3 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Reveals the invention of the readymade as a critical point in contemporary art. Arguing that the readymade belongs to that moment in the history of painting when both figuration and the practice of painting become "impossible," this book presents a psychoanalytically informed account of the birth of abstraction.