Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamps Passage from Painting to the Readymade
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamps Passage from Painting to the Readymade
By (Author) Thierry de Duve
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st March 2006
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Paintings and painting
History of art
759.4
Physical Properties
Paperback
246
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 33mm
Description
Beginning with the instance in 1912 when Marcel Duchamp wrote in a note to himself, "No more painting, get a job," Thierry de Duve reviews in Pictorial Nominalism the implications of the readymade for art and representation. Arguing that the readymade belongs to that moment in the history of painting when both figuration and the practice of painting become "impossible," de Duve presents a psychoanalytically informed account of the birth of abstraction.
Reviews
"De Duve offers clear insight into Duchamp's relation to painting and how readymades can be seen as a clear response to problems specific to painting."-American Book Review
Author Bio
Thierry de Duve, a native of Belgium, is an art historian.Dana Polan is professor of cinema and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. John Rajchman is professor of art at Columbia.
