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| Named Person: | Marcel Duchamp; Marcel Duchamp; Marcel Duchamp; Marcel Duchamp; Marcel Duchamp |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Amelia Jones |
| ISBN: | 052143341X 9780521433419 |
| OCLC Number: | 27643152 |
| Description: | xx, 316 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction: Modernist Art History and the En-gendering of (Duchampian) Postmodernism -- 2. Duchamp as "Generative Patriarch" of Postmodernists: Antimasculinist, Antimodernist Lineage -- 3. The Living Author-Function: Duchamp's Authority -- 4. Duchamp's Seduction: Slippages of the Authorial "I" -- 5. The Ambivalence of Rrose Selavy and the (Male) Artist as "Only the Mother of the Work" -- Intertext: Re-placing Duchamp's Eroticism: "Seeing" Etant donnes from a Feminist Perspective -- 6. Concluding Remarks on the En-gendering of Marcel Duchamp. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism. |
| Responsibility: | Amelia Jones. |
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Abstract:
Focusing primarily on American texts that construct Marcel Duchamp as the origin of postmodern art, Amelia Jones contends that Duchamp, through his readymades, 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. Adapting feminist, psychoanalytic, and Derridean conceptions of interpretation as an exchange of sexual identities, Jones offers highly charged readings that focus on the eroticism of Duchamp's works and on his theories of artistic production. She reconstructs Duchamp as an indeterminably gendered author whose gift to postmodernism might best be viewed in terms of the potential of his works and self-productions to destructure conventional notions of sexual difference and subjectivity.
This study also serves as a feminist critique of postmodernism as it has been theorized in art history and criticism, as well as in broader debates on philosophical and cultural history.
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- Duchamp, Marcel, -- 1887-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Feminist art criticism -- United States.
- Duchamp, Marcel, -- 1887-1968.
- Visual arts -- Postmodernism
- Beeldende kunsten.
- Postmodernisme.
- Sekseverschillen.
- Kunsttheorie.
- Duchamp, Marcel, -- 1887-1968 -- Critique et interprétation.
- Critique d'art féministe -- États-Unis.
- Duchamp, Marcel.
- Duchamp, Marcel -- (1887-1968) -- Critique et interprétation.
