Infinite Regress

Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941

David Joselit (Professor, Harvard University)

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English

MIT Press
23 February 2001

Art & design styles: Surrealism & Dada; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: October Books

In Infinite Regress, David Joselit considers the plurality of identities and practices within Duchamp's life and art between 1910 and 1941, conducting a synthetic reading of his early and middle career.

There is not one Marcel Duchamp, but several. Within his oeuvre Duchamp practiced a variety of modernist idioms and invented an array of contradictory personas- artist and art dealer, conceptualist and craftsman, chess champion and dreamer, dandy and recluse. In Infinite Regress, David Joselit considers the plurality of identities and practices within Duchamp's life and art between 1910 and 1941, conducting a synthetic reading of his early and middle career. Taking into account underacknowledged works and focusing on the conjunction of the machine and the commodity in Duchamp's art, Joselit notes a consistent opposition between the material world and various forms of measurement, inscription, and quantification. Challenging conventional accounts, he describes the readymade strategy not merely as a rejection of painting, but as a means of producing new models of the modern self.

By: David Joselit (Professor Harvard University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 526g
ISBN: 9780262600385
ISBN 10: 0262600382
Series: October Books
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 23 February 2001
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Inactive

David Joselit is Professor of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Infinite Regress- Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941, Feedback- Television against Democracy (both published by the MIT Press), American Art Since 1945, and After Art.

Reviews for Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941

Especially fresh and elucidating.... Joselit's work belongs in all art and academic libraries. - Douglas McClemont, Library Journal; Duchamp's oeuvre is a kind of labyrinth in which one can easily get lost. Joselit's work provides a remarkably original guide for it, and demonstrates, with radically new means, the centrality of Duchamp's oeuvre in this century. - Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University