kant after duchamp
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anyone read this one? looks rather tasty. apparently postmodernism is a
return to kant's thing-in-itself, just like duchamp and warhol. it will
probably offend proud chauvinistic middlebrows. here's the synopsis:
Midwest Book Review
Kant After Duchamp brings together eight essays around a central thesis
with many implications for the history of avant-gardes. Marcel Ducham
(Thierry de Duve observes) 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 emplys
this shift (replacing the word "beauty" by the word "art") in a
rereading of Kan'ts "Critique of Judgment" that reveals the hidden
links between the radical experiments of Duchamp and the Dadaists and
mainstream pictorial modernism. These essays, all updated, are divided
into four parts. Part I revolves around Duchamp's famous/infamous
"Fountain". Part II explores Duchamp's passage from painting to the
readymades, from art in particular to art in general. Part III looks at
the aesthetic and ethical consequences of the replacement of "beauty"
with "art" in Kant's "Critique of Judgement". Finally, part IV attempts
to reconstruct an "archaeology" of modernism that paves the way for a
renewed understanding of our postmodern condition. Kant After Duchamp
is an important and insightful contribution to an insightful national
understanding of the evolution of art, art appreciation, art education,
and the undeniable political implications arising from the arts in the
popular as well as governmental and academic discussions. --This text
refers to the Hardcover edition.
Review
"Thierry de Duve has sought, in this remarkable text, to 'understand
why Marcel Duchamp was such a great artist.' A task that calls upon
resources beyond those of art history, art criticism, and aesthetic
analysis, of all which the author is master. . . . The tone is wry,
urbane, informed, and urgent; and it is a tribute to his appreciation
of the depth of his subject that he takes us further in our
understanding than we have ever seen before, but leaves us with the
sense that more remains to be said than anyone before had imagined."
-- Arthur C. Danto, Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy,
Columbia University; and art critic, The Nation
smw
sirb...@hotmail.com wrote:
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> anyone read this one? looks rather tasty. apparently postmodernism is a
> return to kant's thing-in-itself, just like duchamp and warhol.
Where do you get that from the review?
sirb...@hotmail.com
smw ha escrito:
well that kant was a boring twat and that so was warhol and duchamp.
you having read the former could prolly make your refining corrections.