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Reveals the invention of the readymade as a critical point in contemporary art. Arguing that the readymade belongs to that moment in the history of painting when both figuration and the practice of painting become impossible, this book presents a psychoanalytically informed account of the birth of abstraction.
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Pictorial Nominalism, Thierry de Duve
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- Released
- 2005
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- Title
- Pictorial Nominalism
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Thierry de Duve
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 081664859X
- ISBN13
- 9780816648597
- Category
- Art / Culture, Hobby and Home
- Description
- Reveals the invention of the readymade as a critical point in contemporary art. Arguing that the readymade belongs to that moment in the history of painting when both figuration and the practice of painting become impossible, this book presents a psychoanalytically informed account of the birth of abstraction.