On Periodization: What Does "Post-Duchamp" Mean?

Auteurs

  • Thierry de Duve City University of New York

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2021.188234

Mots-clés :

Duchamp, Post-Duchamp, Periodization, Contemporaneity, Art Institution

Résumé

When we speak of a post-Duchamp art world, we raise a particularly vexing periodization problem. Marcel Duchamp’s readymades, and the famous/infamous urinal titled Fountain in particular, have signaled that a sea change has occurred in the art world, which was not a change in styles but rather in aesthetic regimes, not a change in art movements but rather in art institutions, a change which, mutatis mutandis, is as radical as the passage from monarchy to republic, yet a change which art history books have not recorded yet, as such. Without addressing it in full, my paper recalls the steps that made me aware of this periodization problem.

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Biographie de l'auteur

  • Thierry de Duve, City University of New York

    Thierry de Duve is Historian and philosopher of art and Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York. His English publications include Pictorial Nominalism (1991), Kant After Duchamp (1996), Clement Greenberg Between the Lines (1996, 2010), Look—100 Years of Contemporary Art (2001), Sewn In the Sweatshops of Marx: Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp (2012), and Aesthetics at Large, Volume One: Art, Ethics, Politics (2018). Available in Portuguese is Fazendo escola (ou refazendo-a?), trans. Alexânia Ripoll (Chapeco [Br]: Argos, 2012). Two volumes of his Essais datés, published in French by Mamco in Geneva, have appeared in the last few years: Vol. I, Duchampiana, in 2014, and Vol. II, Adresses, in 2016. His next book, titled Duchamp’s Telegram, is forthcoming from Reaktion Books, London, in 2022. He is presently working on Volume Two of Aesthetics at Large.

Références

BRETON, André; ÉLUARD, Paul. Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme. Paris: Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1938.

DE DUVE, Thierry. Pictorial Nominalism. On Marcel Duchamp’s Passage from Painting to the Readymade / trans. Dana Polan, preface John Rajchman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

DE DUVE, Thierry. Kant after Duchamp / trans. Rosalind Krauss, Judith Aminoff, and the author. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.

DE DUVE, Thierry. Aesthetics at Large, Vol. I: Art, Ethics, Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

DE DUVE, Thierry. Duchamp’s Telegram. London: Reaktion Books, forthcoming in the fall of 2022.

KOSUTH, Joseph. Art after Philosophy I and II. Studio International, October-November 1969, rpt. in KOSUTH, Joseph. Art after Philosophy and After. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991, pp. 13-32.

KRAUSS, Rosalind. Sculpture in the Expanded Field. In KRAUSS, Rosalind. The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985, pp. 276-290.

LYOTARD, Jean-François. Réponse à la question: ‘Qu’est-ce que le postmoderne?’. Critique 419, April 1982: 365; rpt. in LYOTARD, Jean-François. Le postmoderne expliqué aux enfants. Paris: Galilée, 1986.

SMITH, Terry. What Is Contemporary Art. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2009.

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Publiée

2021-11-29

Comment citer

Duve, T. de. (2021). On Periodization: What Does "Post-Duchamp" Mean?. ARS (São Paulo), 19(42), 83-108. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2021.188234