Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance: Art as Experiment (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts)

Marcel Duchamp is frequently considered as an "artist-engineer-scientist," one of those rationalist who relied seriously at the rules of the French mathematician and thinker Henri Poincaré. but an entire portrait of Duchamp and his a number of impacts attracts a unique photo. In his three average Stoppages (1913-1914), a piece that makes use of likelihood as a creative medium, we see how a long way Duchamp subverted scientism in prefer of an intensive individualistic aesthetic and experimental imaginative and prescient.

Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)

Mark C. Taylor provocatively claims that modern artwork has misplaced its approach. With the paintings industry now mirroring the paintings of finance, many artists create works completely for the aim of luring traders and encouraging alternate between hedge money and personal fairness corporations. whilst artwork is commodified, corporatized, and financialized, it loses its serious side and is reworked right into a monetary software calculated to maximise ecocnomic returns.

Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity--A Cultural Biography

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874? 1927) is taken into account by way of many to be the first American dadaist in addition to the mummy of dada. An innovator in poetic shape and an early author of junk sculpture, "the Baroness" was once top identified for her sexually charged, usually arguable performances.

Robert Rauschenberg (October Files)

From the instant paintings historian Leo Steinberg championed his paintings towards Clement Greenberg's inflexible formalism, Robert Rauschenberg has performed a pivotal function within the improvement and realizing of postmodern artwork. difficult approximately all of the triumphing assumptions in regards to the visible arts of his time, he pioneered the postwar revival of university, images, silkscreen, know-how, and function.