Duchamp and the aesthetics of chance

art as experiment

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Duchamp and the aesthetics of chance

art as experiment

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English
Pages
214

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Cover of: Duchamp and the aesthetics of chance
Duchamp and the aesthetics of chance: art as experiment
2010, Columbia University Press
in English
Cover of: Duchamp and the aesthetics of chance
Duchamp and the aesthetics of chance: art as experiment
2010, Columbia University Press
in English
Cover of: Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance
Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance
2010, Columbia University Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Originally published: Kunst als Experiment : Marcel Duchamps "3 Kunststopf-Normalmasse". Munich : Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
Other Titles
Art as experiment

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
709.2
Library of Congress
NB553.D76 A615 2010, NB553.D76A615 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
214

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24488655M
Internet Archive
duchampaesthetic0000mold_k1d3
ISBN 13
9780231147620, 9780231519748
LCCN
2009043390
OCLC/WorldCat
458583435

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