Duchamp and the aesthetics of chance : art as experiment /

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Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an ""artist-engineer-scientist, "" a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet a complete portrait of Duchamp and his multiple influences draws a different picture. In his...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Molderings, Herbert (Autor)
Otros Autores: Brogden, John (Translator)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
Temas:
Duchamp, Marcel, > 1887-1968. > 3 standard stoppages.
Duchamp, Marcel, > 1887-1968 > Criticism and interpretation.
Duchamp, Marcel, > 1887-1968
ART > Individual Artists > Artists' Books.
ART > Individual Artists > Essays.
ART > Individual Artists > Monographs.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The idea of the fabrication
  • The 3 standard stoppages in the context of the large glass. The pane of glass as a materialized plane intersecting the visual pyramid
  • Depersonalizing straight lines. The thread as a metaphor of the visual ray
  • The 3 standard stoppages as paintings. Gravity and line : the "rephysicalization" of the ideal straight
  • Duchamp's application of the new standard measures
  • Painting of chance. Art as an experiment
  • 1936 : Duchamp transforms the painting into an experimental setup. On the title : Roussel's "method"
  • An excursion into the world of shop signs and windows
  • Humorous application of non-Euclidean geometry. A brief digression on Tu m'
  • The crisis of the scientific concept of truth
  • Pataphysics, chance, and the aesthetics of the possible
  • Radical individualism.

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