Histories and Frameworks

Marcel Duchamp: Histories and Frameworks, from Dada to the Neo-Avante Garde
T.J. Demos

This course explores the artwork of Marcel Duchamp, placing it in relation to select historical contexts and avant-garde formations of the twentieth-century, and reviewing the diverse and recent scholarship that addresses it. Topics include the ways in which Duchamp's artistic practice proposes new forms of artistic identity, modes of audience address, and innovative artistic categories such as the ready-made and installation design, and how it relates to capitalism and industrialization, anti-nationalism and exile, gender and sexuality.