Thierry De Duve

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Kant After Duchamp

Thierry De Duve

Synopsis:
Kant after Duchamp brings together eight essays around a central thesis with many implications for the history of the avant-gardes. Although Duchamp's ready mades broke with all previously known styles, Thierry de Duve observes that he 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 employs this shift in a re-reading of Kant's Critique of Judgment that reveals the hidden links between the radical experiments of Duchamp and the Dadaists and mainstream pictorial modernism.

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Other editions: 2001, Softcover - 2001, 2000, Softcover - 2000, 1999, 1999, Softcover - 1996, 1996, Hardcover - 1996, 1989