Author: Paola Magi
Publisher: Edizioni Archivio Dedalus
ISBN: 8890474874
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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Author: Celia Rabinovitch
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1623173566
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Shortlisted for the 2021 Vine Awards Art, chess, and an $87,000 pipe frame an inside look at the relationship between Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp and chess Grandmaster George Koltanowski Spanning three decades, two continents, two world wars, and the international art and chess scenes of the mid twentieth century, Duchamp's Pipe explores the remarkable friendship between art world enfant terrible Marcel Duchamp and blindfold chess champion George Koltanowski. Artist and cultural historian Celia Rabinovitch describes each man's rise to prominence, the chess matches that sparked their relationship, and the recently discovered pipe that Duchamp gave to Koltanowski. This tale of genius and resilience offers fresh insights into the essence of the gift in the bohemian underground. Rabinovitch invites us to discover the chess wizard and a Duchamp slightly off pedestal--and ultimately more human.

Author: Dalia Judovitz
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081666529X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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This volume explores the central importance of appropriation, collaboration, influence, and play in French artist Marcel Duchamp's (1887-1968) work -- and in Dada and Surrealism in general -- to show how the concept of art itself became the critical fueland springboard for questioning art's fundamental premises. Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. The author maintains that rather than simply negating art, Duchamp's readymades (Duchamp's "readymades" are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art") and later works, including films and conceptual pieces, demonstrating the impossibility of defining art in the first place. Through his readymades, Duchamp explicitly critiqued the commodification of art and inaugurated a profound shift from valuing art for its visual appearance to understanding the significance of its mode of public presentation.

Author: Alice Goldfarb Marquis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Journalist and historian Marquis tells the story of French-born American painter and all-around celebrity Duchamp (1887-1968). A substantially different version of the biography was published as Marcel Duchamp: Eros, c'est la vie by Whitson in 1980. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Wayne Andersen
Publisher: Editions Fabriart
ISBN: 9780972557337
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Wayne Andersen will convince you that Marcel Duchamp was not the great artist so many in the academic and museum world made him into. Rather, he was a great con artist who spread his charm and wit over the New York art scene when Dada was flagrantly pervasive in Paris and a parallel bohemianism defined the culture of Greenwich Village. He was clever in his evasive insecurity and so exaggerated that his silly witticisms are published still today as serious. His "Oh, douche it again!" (do shit again!), "L.H.O.O.Q." (she has a hot ass), and "Daily lady would like to dally with daily mail" are cited as creations of a literary genius.

Author: John Sharp
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262029073
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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An exploration of the relationship between games and art that examines the ways that both gamemakers and artists create game-based artworks. Games and art have intersected at least since the early twentieth century, as can be seen in the Surrealists' use of Exquisite Corpse and other games, Duchamp's obsession with Chess, and Fluxus event scores and boxes—to name just a few examples. Over the past fifteen years, the synthesis of art and games has clouded for both artists and gamemakers. Contemporary art has drawn on the tool set of videogames, but has not considered them a cultural form with its own conceptual, formal, and experiential affordances. For their part, game developers and players focus on the innate properties of games and the experiences they provide, giving little attention to what it means to create and evaluate fine art. In Works of Game, John Sharp bridges this gap, offering a formal aesthetics of games that encompasses the commonalities and the differences between games and art. Sharp describes three communities of practice and offers case studies for each. “Game Art,” which includes such artists as Julian Oliver, Cory Arcangel, and JODI (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) treats videogames as a form of popular culture from which can be borrowed subject matter, tools, and processes. “Artgames,” created by gamemakers including Jason Rohrer, Brenda Romero, and Jonathan Blow, explore territory usually occupied by poetry, painting, literature, or film. Finally, “Artists' Games”—with artists including Blast Theory, Mary Flanagan, and the collaboration of Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman—represents a more synthetic conception of games as an artistic medium. The work of these gamemakers, Sharp suggests, shows that it is possible to create game-based artworks that satisfy the aesthetic and critical values of both the contemporary art and game communities.

Author: Richard Bradford
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119409853
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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The first critical survey of its kind devoted solely to literary evaluation Companion to Literary Evaluation bridges the gap between the non-academic literary world, where evaluation is deeply ingrained, and the world of academia, where evaluation is rarely considered. Encouraging readers to formulate and articulate arguments that balance instinctive judgment and reasoned assessment, this unique volume addresses key issues regarding literary values from the perspective of analytical aesthetics and the philosophy of literature. Bringing together a diverse panel of contributors, the Companion explores competing theories of literary evaluation, the reasons for evaluating theater and lyric poetry in performance, the question of value in literary theory, debates over Modernism's negative impact on literature, the possibility of evaluating aesthetic beauty through scientific and formalist methods, the nature and status of literary evaluation as a branch of criticism, aesthetics in applied and community theater, evaluation outside academia, the perils of extreme relativism and subjectivism in literary evaluation, evaluation in schools and much more. Contributors question and reassess the reputations of authors across the canon, from Shakespeare and James Shirley to T S Eliot, Kathleen Raine, Virginia Woolf, Joyce and Beckett amongst others. The Companion: Illustrates how seemingly divergent perspectives on the artistic qualities and value of literature can sometimes overlap Covers the standard range of literary genres, while including others such as unfinished novels, freelance journalism, and lyric poetry in performance Offers methodologies that demonstrate why literature can be treated as something different from other forms of language and therefore assessed as art Explores the importance of maintaining clarity and specificity in the evaluation of literary works Companion to Literary Evaluation is a must-read for undergraduates, research students, lecturers, and academics in search of fresh perspectives on standard literary critical issues.

Author: Gregory Minissale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110701932X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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This book examines how contemporary artworks can affect our psychology, producing immersive experiences.

Author: David Getsy
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271037035
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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"Examines the wide-ranging influence of games and play on the development of modern art in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

Author: Emilio Fantin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783869840802
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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This book, whose title references the epitaph on Marcel Duchamp's tombstone, is based on a conversation held in Rome on January 19, 2014, between E. Fantin, L. Negro, G. Norese, C. Pietroiusti, L. Presicce, M. Pellegrini, R. Tenace, C. Pecchioli, D. Ricco, G. Marinelli, S. Alberani, I. Coppola, S. Ciracì, L. Batacchi, L. Musacchio, M. Benincasa and C. Christov-Bakargiev.This artist's book is an exploration of the topic of death by the Italian artists collective Lu Cafausu, encompassing both past projects and new plans, the result of meetings with old and new companions.