Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company
By (Author) Dalia Judovitz
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
10th April 2010
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Individual artists, art monographs
709.2
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 20mm
Description
Marcel Duchamp's 1919 readymade, L.H.O.O.Q., which he created by drawing a moustache and goatee on a commercial reproduction of the Mona Lisa, precipitated a radical reevaluation of the meaning of art, the process of art making, and the role of the artist. In Drawing on Art, Dalia Judovitz explores the central importance of appropriation, collaboration, influence, and play in Duchamp's workand in Dada and Surrealist art more broadlyto show how the concept of art itself became the critical fuel and springboard for questioning art's fundamental premises.
Author Bio
Dalia Judovitz is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of French at Emory University. She is the author of Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit, Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: The Origins of Modernity, and The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity.
