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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Herbert Molderings , John BrogdenPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.403kg ISBN: 9780231147620ISBN 10: 0231147627 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 31 May 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviews...charming, erudite, and academically thorough volume... * Cerise Press * ...charming, erudite, and academically thorough volume... * Cerise Press * ...charming, erudite, and academically thorough volume... Cerise Press ...charming, erudite, and academically thorough volume... Cerise Press Vol 3, No 9 Author InformationHerbert 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, Laszlo 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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