{"product_id":"duchamp-looked-at-from-the-eric-alliez-9781913029678","title":"Duchamp Looked at (from the Other Side) \/ Duchamp with (and Against) Lacan: (Undoing the Image 3)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA detailed examination of the motivations and precise coordinates of Duchamp's break from painting into the field of the linguistic sign.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatisse and Duchamp seem to incarnate ideal poles of the tension internal to modern art as it plunged into crisis the \u003ci\u003eidea of the image\u003c\/i\u003e--a polemical operation that opened the way to contemporary art's \u003ci\u003eauto-problematization of experimental constructivism\u003c\/i\u003e. Where Matisse subverted the aesthetic regime by bringing painting out of itself to invest its environment in a Bergsonian energetics of color, Duchamp cuts it off\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efrom the plastic arts through a reversal of Bergson's \u003ci\u003ein-the-making\u003c\/i\u003e. The \u003ci\u003ereadymade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ecaptures a literalized signifier of this perspective. \u003ci\u003eDuchamp Looked At\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinarily rich philosophical study that offers a startling new account of the dis\/continuity between the problems of contemporary art and the new articulations Duchamp fabricated between image and idea, science and art, painting and language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlliez and Bonne's meticulous archaeological survey rediscovers the real problems and motivations of \"Duchamp-thought\" through a close analysis of his entire oeuvre: from the Nudes in which the problem of representing movement is gradually displaced into the realm of the virtual, the image disqualified in favor of the diagram, to the pataphysical sciences of chance and the particular, the readymades, the Large Glass and \u003ci\u003e tant donn s\u003c\/i\u003e--and beyond, as the artist carbonizes the gallery with \u003ci\u003e1200 Sacks of Coal\u003c\/i\u003e and ties it up with \u003ci\u003eMiles of String\u003c\/i\u003e, in installations that take Duchamp beyond Duchamp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Alliez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1913029670\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781913029678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Urbanomic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Eric Alliez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991192404223,"sku":"9781913029678","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6545686a-07c1-4c11-9bb8-0cba0a2af887.jpg?v=1683308969","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/duchamp-looked-at-from-the-eric-alliez-9781913029678","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}