login

Postmodernism and the en-gendering of Marcel Duchamp

Choice Reviews OnlinePublished 1 May 1994
Citations105

Abstract

1. Introduction: modernist art history and the en-gendering of (Duchampian) postmodernism 2. Duchamp as generative patriarch of American postmodernists: the anti-masculinist, anti-modernist lineage 3. The living author-function: Duchamp's authority 4. Duchamp's seduction: slippages of the authorial 'I' 5. The ambivalence of Rose Selavy and the (male) artist as 'only the mother of work' intertext, re-placing Duchamp's eroticism: seeing etant donnes from a feminist perspective 6. Concluding remarks on the en-gendering of Marcel Duchamp.

Keywords

Social SciencesArts and Humanities