Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp

Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp

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Jones, Amelia
Cambridge University Press
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A critical analysis of postmodernism in the visual arts since the 1960s, this book focuses primarily on American texts that reference and construct Marcel Duchamp as the originator of postmodern art. Amelia Jones contends that Duchamp, through his 'readymades', (the standard terms used to describe Duchamp's works) has paradoxically served in a paternal role for post-1960s American artists, critics and art historians, who have attempted to construct a new tradition of artistic practice that counters the masculinist ideologies of Abstract Expressionism and Greenbergian modernism. Adapting feminist, psychoanalytic and Derridean conceptions of interpretation as an exchange of sexual identities, Jones offers highly charged readings that focus on the eroticism of Duchamp's works and on his theories of artistic production. She reconstructs Duchamp as an indeterminably gendered author whose gift to postmodernism might best be viewed in terms of the potential of his readymades to destructure the contradictory notions of sexual difference and subjectivity.
EAN 9780521456548
ISBN 0521456541
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication date August 24, 1995
Pages 340
Language English
Dimensions 238 x 190 x 18
Country United Kingdom
Authors Jones, Amelia
Illustrations 51 Halftones, unspecified
Series Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism
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