Beginning with the instance in 1912 when Marcel Duchamp wrote in a note to himself, "No more painting, get a job," Thierry de Duve reviews in Pictorial Nominalism the implications of the readymade for art and representation. Arguing that the readymade belongs to that moment in the history of painting when both figuration and the practice of painting become "impossible," de Duve presents a psychoanalytically informed account of the birth of abstraction.Differing considerably from such thinkers as Clement Greenberg and Peter Burger, de Duve demonstrates that the readymade is the link between painting in particular and art at large.
| ISBN: | 9780816648597 |
| Publication date: | 1st October 2005 |
| Author: | Thierry De Duve |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press an imprint of University Of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 246 pages |
| Series: | Theory and History of Literature |
| Genres: |
The arts: general topics Individual artists, art monographs |
Beginning with the instance in 1912 when Marcel Duchamp wrote in a note to himself, "No more painting, get a job," Thierry de Duve reviews in Pictorial Nominalism the implications of the readymade for art and representation. Arguing that the readymade belongs to that moment in the history of painting when both figuration and the practice of painting become "impossible," de Duve presents a psychoanalytically informed account of the birth of abstraction.Differing considerably from such thinkers as Clement Greenberg and Peter Burger, de Duve demonstrates that the readymade is the link between painting in particular and art at large.
Pictorial Nominalism features in the following genres: The arts: general topics, Individual artists, art monographs
Pictorial Nominalism is available in Paperback
Pictorial Nominalism was written by Thierry De Duve and published by University of Minnesota Press an imprint of University Of Minnesota Press
Pictorial Nominalism has 246 pages
Yes it is part of Theory and History of Literature series