Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade by Thierry de Duve

Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade

Thierry de Duve with Dana Polan (Translator)

222 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction art philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Beginning with the instance in 1912 when Marcel Duchamp wrote in a note to himself, "No more painting, get a job," Thierry de Duve reviews in Pictorial Nominalism the implications of the readymade for art and representation. Arguing that the ready...

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