Kant after Duchamp
Kant after Duchamp brings together eight essays around a central thesis with many implications for the history of avant-gardes. Although Duchamp's readymades broke with all previously known styles, 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 (replacing the word "beauty" by the word"art") in a rereading of Kant's...
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Kant after Duchamp brings together eight essays around a central thesis with many implications for the history of the avant-gardes. Although Duchamps readymades 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.Arthur C. DantoThe tone is wry, urbane, informed, and urgent; it is a tribute to his appreciation of the depth of his subject that he takes us further in our understanding than we have ever seen before. -- Arthur C. Danto, The Nation
\ Arthur C. DantoThe tone is wry, urbane, informed, and urgent; it is a tribute to his appreciation of the depth of his subject that he takes us further in our understanding than we have ever seen before. -- Arthur C. Danto, The Nation\ \
