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

Marcel Duchamp is usually seen 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 affects attracts a unique photograph. In his three typical Stoppages (1913-1914), a piece that makes use of likelihood as a creative medium, we see how a ways Duchamp subverted scientism in want of a thorough 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 manner. With the artwork industry now mirroring the artwork of finance, many artists create works completely for the aim of luring traders and encouraging alternate between hedge money and personal fairness corporations. while artwork is commodified, corporatized, and financialized, it loses its severe aspect and is remodeled right into a monetary device 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 writer of junk sculpture, "the Baroness" used to be top recognized for her sexually charged, frequently debatable performances.

Robert Rauschenberg (October Files)

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