Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp (Paperback, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism
Release date:	August 1995
First published:	1994
Authors:	Amelia Jones
Dimensions:	238 x 190 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	340
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-45654-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
LSN:	0-521-45654-1
Barcode:	9780521456548

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