Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade

Thierry De Duve

Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Country
United States
Published
1 March 2006
Pages
248
ISBN
9780816648597

Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp’s Passage from Painting to the Readymade

Thierry De Duve

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.

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