Derridada: Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction

by Thomas Tucker

Jacques Derrida said that deconstruction "takes place everywhere." Derridada reexamines the work of artist Marcel Duchamp as one of these places. Tucker suggests that Duchamp belongs to deconstruction as much as deconstruction belongs to Duchamp. Both bear the infra-thin mark of the other. He explores these marks through the themes of time and diff rance, language and the readymade, and the construction of self-identity through art. This book will...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739116223
• ISBN13: 9780739116227
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.0"