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Duchamp's Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-In-General

Duchamp's Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-In-General - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Thierry de DuvePublish date:2023-08-09Pages:456
Language:EnglishPublisher:Reaktion BooksISBN-13:9781789146981ISBN-10:1789146984UPC:9781789146981Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:HistoryBook Topic:Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:9.48 x 6.55 x 1.38 inchesWeight:2.6918Product ID:SCE7ZGJZ3J
A revisionist history of Duchamp's legacy and impact on modern art.

In 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that point on, the whole Western art world reconfigured itself as 'post-Duchamp'.

This book offers a reading of Duchamp's telegram that sheds new light on its first reception, corrects some historical mistakes and reveals that Duchamp's urinal in fact heralded the demise of the fine arts system and the advent of what Thierry de Duve calls the 'Art-in-General' system. Further, the author shows that this new system does not date from the 1960s but rather from the 1880s. Duchamp was neither its author nor its agent, but rather its brilliant messenger.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Reaktion BooksISBN-13:9781789146981ISBN-10:1789146984UPC:9781789146981Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:HistoryBook Topic:Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:9.48 x 6.55 x 1.38 inchesWeight:2.6918Product ID:SCE7ZGJZ3J
Thierry de Duve is the Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York. His books include Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx: Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp.
Publisher: Reaktion Books

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