The Duchamp Effect (October Books) [Paperback]

Martha Buskirk (Author), Mignon Nixon (Author)

Book Description

Series: October Books | Publication Date: October 1, 1996

This expanded edition of the fall 1994 special issue of October includes new essays by Sarat Maharaj and by Molly Nesbit and Naomi Sawelson-Gorse. It also includes the transcript of an exchange between T. J. Clark and Benjamin Buchloh which presents new responses to the problems raised by this immediately popular (and now out of print) issue of the journal. The Duchamp Effect is an investigation of the historical reception of the work of Marcel Duchamp from the 1950s to the present, including interviews by Benjamin Buchloh (with Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and Robert Morris), Elizabeth Armstrong (with Ed Ruscha and Bruce Conner), and Martha Buskirk (with Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, and Fred Wilson) and a round-table discussion of the Duchamp effect on conceptual art.ContentsIntroduction · Benjamin H. D. BuchlohWhat's Neo about the Neo-Avant-Garde? · Hal FosterTypotranslating the Green Box · Sarat MaharajThree Conversations in 1985: Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Robert Morris · Benjamin H. D. BuchlohInterviews with Ed Ruscha and Bruce Conner · ElizabethArmstrongEchoes of the Readymade: Critique of Pure Modernism · Thierryde DuveConcept of Nothing: New Notes by Marcel Duchamp and Walter Arensberg · Molly Nesbit and Naomi Sawelson-GorseInterviews with Sherrie Levine, Louis Lawler, and Fred Wilson · Martha BuskirkThoroughly Modern Marcel ·, Martha BuskirkConceptual Art and the Reception of Duchamp · OctoberRound TableAll the Things I Said about Duchamp: A Response to Benjamin Buchloh · T. J. ClarkResponse to T. J. Clark · Benjamin Buchloh

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About the Author

Mignon Nixon is Professor of Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: The MIT Press; First edition. edition (October 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262522179
• ISBN-13: 978-0262522175
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book in terms of Duchamp Material, February 1, 2011

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This review is from: The Duchamp Effect (October Books) (Paperback)

This a great and very useful book for all Duchampians and for people who see through the crap of todays (so called) Art - or does Art exist anymore? - we are certainly in the company of brilliance in Duchamp and of course this work (a great October Book) opens many a door to the scientifically refined ideas that Duchamp played with in such complex ways. There is more to the book than one might at first imagine by its size and its cover. Don't be gulled by this. There is far too much made of Duchamp regarding the kind of "conceptual art" that came after his death (and before it). However, this book is subtle in it's handling of Duchamp's work and his writings and thought.