Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp'S Passage From Painting To The Readymade

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.

• | By (Author): Thierry De Duve
• | Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2005
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 081664859X
• | ISBN-13: 9780816648597