Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade
by Duve, Thierry de; Rajchman, John (Foreword by), and Polan, Dana B. (Translated by)
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Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press; Theory and History of Literature Ser., Vol. 51, 1991. xxii, 222 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 23 cm. First published, 1984, under title: Nominalisme pictural. Translated from the French. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. One of the best writers on Duchamp, de Duve employs a psychoanalytic analysis of Duchamp's oeuvre. "Reveals the invention of the readymade as a critical point in contemporary art. Beginning with the instance in 1912 when Marcel Duchamp wrote in a note to himself, 'No more painting, get a job,' Thierry de Duve reviews in Pictorial Nominalism the implications of the readymade for art and representation. Arguing that the readymade belongs to that moment in the history of painting when both figuration and the practice of painting become 'impossible,' de Duve presents a psychoanalytically informed account of the birth of abstraction. Differing considerably from such thinkers as Clement Greenberg and Peter Burger, de Duve demonstrates that the readymade is the link between painting in particular and art at large. / Thierry de Duve, a native of Belgium, is an art historian. Dana Polan is professor of cinema and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. John Rajchman is professor of art at Columbia University." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
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- Title
- Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade
- Author
- Duve, Thierry de; Rajchman, John (Foreword by), and Polan, Dana B. (Translated by)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0816615659
- ISBN 13
- 9780816615650
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press; Theory and History of Literature Ser., Vol. 51
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis, MN
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / 8. Modern, 1900-1945; European / French; Movements / Dada;
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