{"product_id":"duchamps-telegram-from-beaux-arts-to-art-in-general-9781789146981","title":"Duchamp's Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-In-General","description":"\u003cb\u003eA revisionist history of Duchamp's legacy and impact on modern art.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that point on, the whole Western art world reconfigured itself as 'post-Duchamp'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book offers a reading of Duchamp's telegram that sheds new light on its first reception, corrects some historical mistakes and reveals that Duchamp's urinal in fact heralded the demise of the fine arts system and the advent of what Thierry de Duve calls the 'Art-in-General' system. Further, the author shows that this new system does not date from the 1960s but rather from the 1880s. Duchamp was neither its author nor its agent, but rather its brilliant messenger. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThierry de Duve\u003c\/b\u003e is the Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York. His books include \u003ci\u003eSewn in the Sweatshops of Marx: Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reaktion Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645206237458,"sku":"9781789146981","price":47.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1a4e5316-0153-4356-a9a0-145c4694c89c.jpg?v=1733143610","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/duchamps-telegram-from-beaux-arts-to-art-in-general-9781789146981","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}