Duchamp and the aesthetics of chance : art as experiment /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2010]
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| Series: | Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
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Table of Contents:
- The idea of the fabrication
- The 3 standard stoppages in the context of the large glass. The pane of glass as a materialized plane intersecting the visual pyramid
- Depersonalizing straight lines. The thread as a metaphor of the visual ray
- The 3 standard stoppages as paintings. Gravity and line : the "rephysicalization" of the ideal straight
- Duchamp's application of the new standard measures
- Painting of chance. Art as an experiment
- 1936 : Duchamp transforms the painting into an experimental setup. On the title : Roussel's "method"
- An excursion into the world of shop signs and windows
- Humorous application of non-Euclidean geometry. A brief digression on Tu m'
- The crisis of the scientific concept of truth
- Pataphysics, chance, and the aesthetics of the possible
- Radical individualism.