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Kant after Duchamp Thierry de Duve
Publisher: MIT Press

Call No.: R English 111.85 DUV. 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. (Theirry de Duve, Kant after Duchamp, The MIT press, 1996) But what sort of definition is that? See also Thierry De Duve, Kant After Duchamp (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 1996), 199–279. This volume brings together eight essays around a central thesis, with implications for the history of avant-gardes. Why am I suddenly obsessed with these questions again? The title of the blog derives from Thierry de Duve's book Kant After Duchamp and was also the title of the written portion of my MFA thesis. Because I am reading this book, Kant After Duchamp written by a long-winded Frenchman, Thierry de Duve. Art is a complicated social product, an aesthetic document of humankind and its culture. 4 Paul Chan, “What Art Is and Where It Belongs,” e-flux journal, no. Art as an artist defined it and as ratified by a museum. Way back in 1998 (and I know this because I just checked the publication date when I grabbed the book to confirm the spelling of his name) I read “Kant after Duchamp” by Thierry de Duve. After a prize-winning introduction to a translation of Husserl's Origin of Geometry (1962), it was with La Voix et le phénomène, De la grammatologie, and L'Écriture et la différence (all 1967), and subsequently Marges de la philosophie, Press (1996) | "Kant after Duchamp", Thierry de Duve, October - MIT Press (1996)|"Neo-Avantgarde and Cultural Industry - Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975", Benjamin H.D. Title: Kant after Duchamp / Thierry de Duve. This exhibition is partly inspired by the first chapter of Thierry de Duve's Kant after Duchamp, in which an imaginary anthropologist from outer space sets out to inventory 'all that is called art by humans'.