Amelia Jones

Postmodernism and the En-Gendering Marcel Duchamp

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book serves as a critical analysis of postmodernism in the visual arts since the 1960s, focusing primarily on American texts that deem Marcel Duchamp to be the originator of postmodern art. Amelia Jones argues that through his 'readymades' Duchamp has paradoxically served in a paternal role for post-1960s American artists, critics, and art historians, who have attempted to construct a new tradition of artistic practice that counters the masculinist ideologies of Abstract Expressionism and Greenbergian modernism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9780521456548
• ISBN-10: 0521456541
• Artikelnr.: 21284631

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: modernist art history and the en-gendering of (Duchampian)
postmodernism; 2. Duchamp as generative patriarch of American
postmodernists: the anti-masculinist, anti-modernist lineage; 3. The living
author-function: Duchamp's authority; 4. Duchamp's seduction: slippages of
the authorial 'I'; 5. The ambivalence of Rose Sélavy and the (male) artist
as 'only the mother of work'; intertext, re-placing Duchamp's eroticism:
seeing étant donnés from a feminist perspective; 6. Concluding remarks on
the en-gendering of Marcel Duchamp.