Kant after Duchamp Thierry de Duve
Publisher: MIT Press

Participation, by Claire Bishop ed. The launching pad seems to be the first chapter of Thierry de Duve's Kant After Duchamp, which attempts to understand art through the eyes of a Martian anthropologist visiting Earth. Asin 0262540940 Kant after Duchamp (October Books) - The MIT Press - ecs4.com 292d5093b06fe93ab140cee9c89f2790. Thierry de Duve explores this matter in his already famous book “Kant after Duchamp”. By inventing the readymade, Marcel Duchamp brings a new idea into art, moreover, he radically transforms the meaning of art. KANTAFTERDUCHAMPTHIERRY DE DUVEAN O C T O B E R BOOKT H E M I T PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS LONDON, ENCLAND © 1996 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. (Theirry de Duve, Kant after Duchamp, The MIT press, 1996) But what sort of definition is that? Art is a complicated social product, an aesthetic document of humankind and its culture. Austin distinguished what he calls speech acts that simply say something (constative) from speech acts that do something (performative) - i.e., they accomplish what they say. Transmitting Culture, by Régis Debray, Columbia U. The most common object can be said to be art in specific contexts. I found Theirry de Duve's 'Kant after Duchamp' most controversial here. Press, 2000; Art Power, by Boris Groys, MIT Press, 2008; Kant after Duchamp, by Theirry de Duve.