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Title: | Marcel Duchamp, art and the ethical signifi cance of a renewed relationship with the object |
Authors: | Vella Rago, Manuel |
Keywords: | Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 -- Philosophy |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | University of Malta. Faculty of Theology |
Citation: | Vella Rago, M. (2015). Marcel Duchamp, art and the ethical signifi cance of a renewed relationship with the object. Melita Theologica, 65(2), 91-105 |
Abstract: | In this paper I shall show that the artworks of Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) harbour as yet unheeded ontological and ethical implications. I shall do this through an investigation of Duchamp’s readymades and his writings on “indifference,” as well as Duchamp’s most complex work, The Large Glass. I shall show that Duchamp’s works accomplish a recalibration of the work-spectator relationship through which modern art reclaims and proclaims the object’s inherent rights to self-manifestation and self-affirmation. I conclude by showing that the challenge posed by Duchamp’s art does not pertain to art alone, but calls for a genuine renewal of our ethical relationship with the other generally. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/15333 |
ISSN: | 1012-9588 |
Appears in Collections: | MT - Volume 65, Issue 2 - 2015 MT - Volume 65, Issue 2 - 2015 |
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