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 distinct photo. In his three general Stoppages (1913-1914), a piece that makes use of probability 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 paintings has misplaced its manner. With the artwork marketplace now mirroring the paintings of finance, many artists create works exclusively for the aim of luring traders and encouraging alternate between hedge cash and personal fairness companies. while artwork is commodified, corporatized, and financialized, it loses its severe area and is remodeled right into a monetary tool 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" was once most sensible recognized for her sexually charged, frequently debatable 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 position within the improvement and knowing of postmodern artwork. not easy approximately all of the winning assumptions concerning the visible arts of his time, he pioneered the postwar revival of college, images, silkscreen, know-how, and function.