The Duchamp Effect

by Buskirk, Martha; Nixon, Mignon

• ISBN13: 9780262522175
• ISBN10: 0262522179
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-25
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

This expanded edition of the fall 1994 special issue of Octoberincludes 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 Effectis 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. Contents Introduction Benjamin H. D. Buchloh What's Neo about the Neo-Avant-Garde? Hal Foster Typotranslating the Green Box Sarat Maharaj Three Conversations in 1985: Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Robert Morris Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Interviews with Ed Ruscha and Bruce Conner Elizabeth Armstrong Echoes of the Readymade: Critique of Pure Modernism Thierry de Duve Concept of Nothing: New Notes by Marcel Duchamp and Walter Arensberg Molly Nesbit and Naomi Sawelson-Gorse Interviews with Sherrie Levine, Louis Lawler, and Fred Wilson Martha Buskirk Thoroughly Modern Marcel , Martha Buskirk Conceptual Art and the Reception of Duchamp OctoberRound Table All the Things I Said about Duchamp: A Response to Benjamin Buchloh T. J. Clark Response to T. J. Clark Benjamin Buchloh

Author Biography

Martha Buskirk is Associate Professor of Art History and Criticism at Montserrat College of Art.

Mignon Nixon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at University College London and an editor of October magazine. She is the author of Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art and the editor of a previous October Files volume, Eva Hesse (both published by the MIT Press).

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
What's Neo about the Neo-Avant-Garde?	p. 5
Three Conversations in 1985: Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Robert Morris	p. 33
Interviews with Ed Rushcha and Bruce Conner	p. 55
Typotranslating the Green Box	p. 61
Echoes of the Readymade: Critique of Pure Modernism	p. 93
Concept of Nothing: New Notes by Marcel Duchamp and Walter Arensberg	p. 131
Interviews with Sherrie Levine, Louise Lawler, and Fred Wilson	p. 177
Thoroughly Modern Macel	p. 191
Conceptual Art and the Reception of Duchamp	p. 205
All the Things I said about Duchamp	p. 225
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