Molderings Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance

Art as Experiment
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-51974-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Molderings, Herbert

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brogden, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Konzeptkunst, Postmodernismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Surrealismus, Abstrakter Expressionismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Herbert Molderings is a freelance scholar and professor of art history at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. The author of eleven books, he specializes in the history of modern and contemporary art, European photography of the twentieth century, and the works of Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, and Umbo. Molderings is a former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin and a former director of a research program at the Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art in Paris. He divides his time beween Cologne and Paris.

John Brogden lives in Dortmund, Germany, and specializes in the translation of art historical subjects.