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Duchampâs Telegram

Name: Duchampâs Telegram
Brand: Reaktion Books
SKU: 9781789146981
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ISBN: 9781789146981

From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General

Contributor(s): Thierry de Duve Author Format: Hardback

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ISBN	9781789146981
Subtitle	From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General
Publisher	Reaktion Books
Publication date	June 2023
Language	English
MRP	£32.00 GBP
Page count	456

In 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that point on, the whole Western art world reconfigured itself as 'post-Duchamp'. This book offers a reading of Duchamp's telegram that sheds new light on its first reception, corrects some historical mistakes and reveals that Duchamp's urinal in fact heralded the demise of the fine arts system and the advent of what Thierry de Duve calls the 'Art-in-General' system. Further, the author shows that this new system does not date from the 1960s but rather from the 1880s. Duchamp was neither its author nor its agent, but rather its brilliant messenger.

Duchampâs Telegram

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Thierry de Duve Author

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