Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance : : Art as Experiment / / Herbert Molderings.
Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an "artist-engineer-scientist," a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet a complete portrait of Duchamp and his multiple influences draws a different picture. In his 3 Standard St...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 37 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. The Idea of the Fabrication
- 2. The 3 Standard Stoppages in the Context of the Large Glass
- 3. The 3 Standard Stoppages as Paintings
- 4. 1936: Duchamp Transforms the Painting Into an Experimental Setup
- 5. Humorous Application of Non-Euclidean Geometry
- 6. The Crisis of the Scientific Concept of Truth
- 7. Pataphysics, Chance, and the Aesthetics of the Possible
- 8. Radical Individualism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index