Duchamp and the aesthetics of chance : art as experiment / Herbert Molderings; translated by John Brogden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Molderings, Herbert.

Contributor:

Brogden, John (Translator)

Series:

Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.

Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts

Standardized Title:

Kunst als Experiment. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968. 3 standard stoppages.

Duchamp, Marcel.

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968--Criticism and interpretation.

Sculpture--France--History--20th century.

Sculpture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Art as experiment

Place of Publication:

New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Stoppages (1913-1914), a work that uses chance as an artistic medium, we see how far Duchamp subverted scientism in favor of a radical individualistic aesthetic and experimental vision.Unlike the Dadaists, Duchamp did more than dismiss or negate the authority of science. He pushed scientific rationalism to the point where its claims broke down and alternative truths were allowed to emerge. With humor and irony, Duchamp undertook a method of artistic research, reflection, and visual thought that focused less on beauty than on the notion of the "possible." He became a passionate advocate of the power of invention and thinking things that had never been thought before. The 3 Standard Stoppages is the ultimate realization of the play between chance and dimension, visibility and invisibility, high and low art, and art and anti-art. Situating Duchamp firmly within the literature and philosophy of his time, Herbert Molderings recaptures the spirit of a frequently misread artist-and his thrilling aesthetic of chance.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612796517

9781282796515

1282796518

9780231519748

0231519745

OCLC:

826476142