Author : Amelia Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521456548
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (565 download)
Book Synopsis Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp by : Amelia Jones
Download or read book Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp written by Amelia Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical analysis of postmodernism in the visual arts since the 1960s, this book focuses primarily on American texts that reference and construct Marcel Duchamp as the originator of postmodern art. Amelia Jones contends that Duchamp, through his 'readymades', (the standard terms used to describe Duchamp's works) has paradoxically served in a paternal role for post-1960s American artists, critics and art historians, who have attempted to construct a new tradition of artistic practice that counters the masculinist ideologies of Abstract Expressionism and Greenbergian modernism. Adapting feminist, psychoanalytic and Derridean conceptions of interpretation as an exchange of sexual identities, Jones offers highly charged readings that focus on the eroticism of Duchamp's works and on his theories of artistic production. She reconstructs Duchamp as an indeterminably gendered author whose gift to postmodernism might best be viewed in terms of the potential of his readymades to destructure the contradictory notions of sexual difference and subjectivity.