With hidden noise : the rattle of Marcel Duchamp

Searching and finding is always exciting. Hiding touches on a cluster of fundamental images, diverse and conflicting interests, basic motivations, and emotions. Playing hide-and-seek or Verschwinden und Wiederkommen is testing and acquiring familiarity with an existential mold that shapes experience. At the core of hide-and-seek lies the realization that reality is never given as a whole. It is never completely visible and available; it always exists as hidden. It never shows itself more than partially, and even that part is shown only superficially, as veiled or masked. To hide artistically and make secret is easy. No doubt the artist who mounted the most consistent and prototypical resistance against Mystery and the residual vestiges of Truth in art, and against the claims to false depths made there, is Marcel Duchamp. His main work in this regard is With Hidden Noise. After centuries of art transforming horrifying sacred mysteries into aesthetic sublimity and romantic poetry, Duchamp demonstrates with one small, inexpensive, banal, unattractive, and unclassifiable semi-readymade how the artificial poetic depth of art can be invalidated by a small-scale model showcasing the logic of enigmatic art.

ISBN:9789461664464

Jaar van publicatie:2022

Toegankelijkheid:Closed