num_pages: 504
description: Kant after Duchamp brings together eight essays around a central thesis with many implications for the history of avant-gardes. Although Duchamp's ready mades broke with all previously known styles, de Duve observes that he made the logic of modernist art practice the subject matter of his work, a shift in aesthetic judgment that replaced the classical "this is beautiful" with "this is art." De Duve employs this shift (replacing the word "beauty" by the word "art") in a rereading of Kant's Critique of Judgment that reveals the hidden links between the radical experiments of Duchamp and the Dadaists and mainstream pictorial modernism.
language: English
title: Kant after Duchamp
titlecomplete: Kant after Duchamp
genres: Nonfiction, Art, Philosophy, Theory
ratings_count: 96
series: October Books
publisher: The MIT Press