{"product_id":"duchamp-looked-at-from-the-other-side-duchamp-with-and-against-lacan-isbn-9781913029678","title":"Duchamp Looked At (From the Other Side) \/ Duchamp With (and Against) Lacan","description":"\u003cb\u003eA detailed examination of the motivations and precise coordinates of Duchamp's break from painting into the field of the linguistic sign.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatisse and Duchamp seem to incarnate ideal poles of the tension internal to modern art as it plunged into crisis the \u003ci\u003eidea of the image\u003c\/i\u003e—a polemical operation that opened the way to contemporary art's \u003ci\u003eauto-problematization of experimental constructivism\u003c\/i\u003e. Where Matisse subverted the aesthetic regime by bringing painting out of itself to invest its environment in a Bergsonian energetics of color, Duchamp cuts it off\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efrom the plastic arts through a reversal of Bergson's \u003ci\u003ein-the-making\u003c\/i\u003e. The \u003ci\u003ereadymade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ecaptures a literalized signifier of this perspective. \u003ci\u003eDuchamp Looked At\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinarily rich philosophical study that offers a startling new account of the dis\/continuity between the problems of contemporary art and the new articulations Duchamp fabricated between image and idea, science and art, painting and language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlliez and Bonne's meticulous archaeological survey rediscovers the real problems and motivations of “Duchamp-thought” through a close analysis of his entire oeuvre: from the Nudes in which the problem of representing movement is gradually displaced into the realm of the virtual, the image disqualified in favor of the diagram, to the pataphysical sciences of chance and the particular, the readymades, the Large Glass and \u003ci\u003eÉtant donnés\u003c\/i\u003e—and beyond, as the artist carbonizes the gallery with \u003ci\u003e1200 Sacks of Coal\u003c\/i\u003e and ties it up with \u003ci\u003eMiles of String\u003c\/i\u003e, in installations that take Duchamp beyond Duchamp.\u003c\/p\u003e\"The requisite productive tension between the history of art and philosophical concerns is nothing less than inspiring.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jae Emerling, \u003ci\u003eCritical Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eÉric Alliez is a philosopher and Professor at Université Paris 8 and at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He is author of \u003ci\u003eCapital Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Signature of the World: Or, What is Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy?\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Brain-Eye: New Histories of Modern Painting\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWars and Capital\u003c\/i\u003e, with Maurizio Lazzarato (Semiotext(e)), and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Guattari Effect\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSpheres of Action: Art and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean-Claude Bonne is an art historian and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.","brand":"Urbanomic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299786903781,"sku":"NP9781913029678","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781913029678.jpg?v=1767725739","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/duchamp-looked-at-from-the-other-side-duchamp-with-and-against-lacan-isbn-9781913029678","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}