Marcel Duchamp: The Failed Messiah - Rilegato

Andersen, Wayne

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0972557342 ISBN 13: 9780972557344

Casa editrice: Editions Fabriart Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

Marcel Duchamp's gift to artists was similar to the Marquis de Sade's gift to sadistsùrelief from moral restraints, accountability, guilt, and shame.

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.

Duchamp was like an alien element that fragmented modern art with the impact of a meteor, comparable, but hardly in size, to the one that destroyed dinosaurs and made it possible for thousands of little multi-cultured species to emerge from their holes and crevices and grow in daylightùwhich, in a comparative reductive way, is what the impact of Duchamp did. The birth of post-modernism (some people say) spelled the end of modernism, the end of historical progress, just as that meteor's impact meant the end of evolution.

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Marcel Duchamp's gift to artists was similar to the Marquis de Sade's gift to sadists - relief from moral restraints, accountability, guilt, and shame. Wayne Andersen will convince you that Duchamp was not the great artist that so many in the academic and museum world believe him to be. Rather, he was a great con artist who spread his charm and wit over the New York art scene. He was clever in his evasive insecurity and so exaggerated that his silly witticisms are still published today as serious. Duchamp was like an alien element that fragmented modern art with the impact of a meteor. The birth of postmodernism (some people say) spelled the end of modernism, the end of historical progress, just as that meteor's impact meant the end of evolution. Is any of this true?

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• Editore: Editions Fabriart Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0972557342
• ISBN 13: 9780972557344
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 388