Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance

Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance PDF Author: Herbert Molderings
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231147627
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Book Description
Situating Duchamp firmly within the literature & philosophy of his time, Herbert Molderings recaptures the spirit of a frequently misread artist & his aesthetic of chance.

Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance

Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance PDF Author: Herbert Molderings
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231147627
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Book Description
Situating Duchamp firmly within the literature & philosophy of his time, Herbert Molderings recaptures the spirit of a frequently misread artist & his aesthetic of chance.

Chance Aesthetics

Chance Aesthetics PDF Author: Meredith Malone
Publisher: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Sept. 18, 2009-Jan. 4, 2010.

Unpacking Duchamp

Unpacking Duchamp PDF Author: Dalia Judovitz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520213760
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Book Description
"Transit, transitional, transition: Dalia Judovitz catches Marcel Duchamp on the run with his art in a suitcase and his thought all boxed and ready to go. . . . She demonstrates how the theme of transition, reappearing from work to work, makes each piece reproduce some other piece, while all continue to exemplify an original which can no longer be found and which has no creator."—Jean-François Lyotard

Dadas on Art

Dadas on Art PDF Author: Lucy R. Lippard
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486456994
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Book Description
A select anthology of the Dada movement focusing mainly on visual artists features prose, poetry, and polemics from such notables as Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Tristan Tzara, Hanna Hèoch, George Grosz, and Jean Cocteau.

Chance, Phenomenology and Aesthetics

Chance, Phenomenology and Aesthetics PDF Author: Ian Andrews
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350148482
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Book Description
In drawing upon the work of Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and aligning it with a new trend in interdisciplinary phenomenology, Ian Andrews provides a unique look at the role of chance in art and its philosophical implications. His account of how the composer John Cage and other avant-garde creatives such as Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, Sol LeWitt and Ed Ruscha used chance in their work to question the structures of experience and prompt a new engagement with these phenomena makes a truly important contribution to Continental philosophy. Chance, Phenomenology and Aesthetics will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the disciplines of phenomenology, deconstruction and hermeneutics, as well as being compelling reading for anyone interested in pursuing sound studies, art theory and art history through an interdisciplinary post-phenomenological lens.

Pictorial Nominalism

Pictorial Nominalism PDF Author: Thierry De Duve
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081664859X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Book Description
Reveals the invention of the readymade as a critical point in contemporary art.

Sprezzatura

Sprezzatura PDF Author: Paolo D'Angelo
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231540345
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Book Description
The essence of art is to conceal art. A dancer or musician does not only need to perform with ability. There should also be a lack of visible effort that gives an impression of naturalness. To disguise technique and feign ease is to heighten beauty. To express this notion, Italian has a word with no exact equivalent in other languages, sprezzatura: a kind of unaffectedness or nonchalance. In this book, the first to consider sprezzatura in its own right, philosopher of art Paolo D’Angelo reconstructs the history of concealing art, from ancient rhetoric to our own times. The word sprezzatura was coined in 1528 by Baldassarre Castiglione in The Book of the Courtier to mean a kind of grace with a special essence: the ability to conceal art. But the idea reaches back to Aristotle and Cicero and forward to avant-garde works such as Duchamp’s ready-mades, all of which share the suspicion of the overt display of skill. The precept that art must be hidden turns up in a number of fields, from cosmetics to interior design, politics to poetry, the English garden to shabby chic. Through exploring different articulations of this idea, D’Angelo shows the paradox of aesthetics: art hides that it is art, but in doing so it reveals itself to be art and becomes an assertion about art. When art is concealed, it appears as spontaneous as nature—yet, paradoxically, also reveals its indebtedness to technique. An erudite and surprising tour through aesthetics, philosophy, and art history, Sprezzatura presents a strikingly original argument with deceptive ease.

Chance

Chance PDF Author: Margaret Iversen
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Book Description
Why chance remains a key strategy in artists' investigations into the contemporary world.

Difference/indifference

Difference/indifference PDF Author: Moira Roth
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9789057012518
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Book Description
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Duchamp, Aesthetics and Capitalism

Duchamp, Aesthetics and Capitalism PDF Author: Julian Jason Haladyn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100065110X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Book Description
This book is a significant re-thinking of Duchamp’s importance in the twenty-first century, taking seriously the readymade as a critical exploration of object-oriented relations under the conditions of consumer capitalism. The readymade is understood as an act of accelerating art as a discourse, of pushing to the point of excess the philosophical precepts of modern aesthetics on which the notion of art in modernity is based. Julian Haladyn argues for an accelerated Duchamp that speaks to a contemporary condition of art within our era of globalized capitalist production.