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Postmodernism and the En-Gendering of Marcel Duchamp

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This book serves as a critical analysis of postmodernism in the visual arts since the 1960s, focusing primarily on American texts that deem Marcel Duchamp to be the originator of postmodern art. Amelia Jones argues that through his "readymades" Duchamp has paradoxically served in a paternal role for post-1960s American artists, critics, and art historians, who have attempted to construct a new tradition of artistic practice that counters the masculinist ideologies of Abstract Expressionism and Greenbergian modernism. Adapting feminist, psychoanalytic, and Derridian conceptions of interpretation as an exchange of sexual identities, Jones offers highly charged readings of Duchamp's works and his theories of artistic production. She reconstructs Duchamp as an indeterminately gendered author whose gift to postmodernism might best be viewed in terms of the potential of his readymades to destructure the contradictory notions of sexual difference and subjectivity.
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations viii
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xix
1 Introduction: Modernist Art History and the En-gendering of (Duchampian) Postmodernism 1
2 Duchamp as "Generative Patriarch" of American Postmodernists: The Antimasculinist, Antimodernist Lineage 29
3 The Living Author-Function: Duchamp's Authority 63
4 Duchamp's Seduction: Slippages of the Authorial "I" 110
5 The Ambivalence of Rrose Selavy and the (Male) Artist as "Only the Mother of the Work" 146
Intertext: Re-placing Duchamp's Eroticism: "Seeing" Etant donnes from a Feminist Perspective 191
6 Concluding Remarks on the En-gendering of Marcel Duchamp 205
Notes 215
Index 310
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