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Duchamp's Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General
Hardback
Main Details
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Duchamp's Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Thierry de Duve
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:456 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156 |
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| Category/Genre | Art and design styles - from c 1900 to now
Art and design styles - Surrealism and Dada |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781789146981
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| Audience | | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | |
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| Illustrations |
157 illustrations, 69 in colour
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Publishing Details |
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Reaktion Books
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| Imprint |
Reaktion Books
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| NZ Release Date |
1 September 2023 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
In 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that point on, the whole Western art world reconfigured itself as 'post-Duchamp'. This book offers a reading of Duchamp's telegram that sheds new light onto its first reception, corrects some historical mistakes and reveals that Duchamp's urinal in fact heralds the demise of the fine arts system and the advent of what Thierry de Duve calls the 'Art-in-General' system. Further, the author shows that this new system does not date from the 1960s but rather from the 1880s. Duchamp was neither its author nor its agent, but rather its brilliant messenger.
Author Biography
Thierry de Duve is Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York. His books include Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx: Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp (2012).
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