Duchamp and the aesthetics of chance
Subtitle: art as experiment
By: Herbert Molderings ; translated by John Brogden
Series: Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780231147620; 9780231519748
Other titles: Art as experiment
Work titles: Kunst als Experiment
Notes: Originally published:  Kunst als Experiment : Marcel Duchamps "3 Kunststopf-Normalmasse". Munich : Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The idea of the fabrication; title: The 3 standard stoppages in the context of the large glass. The pane of glass as a materialized plane intersecting the visual pyramid; title: Depersonalizing straight lines. The thread as a metaphor of the visual ray; title: The 3 standard stoppages as paintings. Gravity and line : the "rephysicalization" of the ideal straight; title: Duchamp's application of the new standard measures; title: Painting of chance. Art as an experiment; title: 1936 : Duchamp transforms the painting into an experimental setup. On the title : Roussel's "method"; title: An excursion into the world of shop signs and windows; title: Humorous application of non-Euclidean geometry. A brief digression on Tu m'; title: The crisis of the scientific concept of truth; title: Pataphysics, chance, and the aesthetics of the possible; title: Radical individualism.