Jerrold Seigel
Författare till Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930
Om författaren
Jerrold Seigel is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History at New York University
Verk av Jerrold Seigel
Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 (1986) 114 exemplar
The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century (2005) 88 exemplar
The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture (1995) 32 exemplar
Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics, and Culture in England, France and Germany since 1750 (2012) 23 exemplar
Action and conviction in early modern Europe : essays in memory of E. H. Harbison (1969) — Redaktör — 9 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1938-06-09
- Kön
- male
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Statistik
- Verk
- 11
- Medlemmar
- 303
- Popularitet
- #77,624
- Betyg
- 3.4
- Recensioner
- 2
- ISBN
- 34
- Språk
- 2
At the book's center is a reinterpretation of the famous "readymades," of which the urinal "Fountain" and the defaced Mona Lisa were the most shocking. By recovering their history, Seigel shows that their playful and rebellious surface veiled the meanings that linked them to Duchamp's pictures (especially the famous "Large Glass," here illuminated by a comprehensive new reading) and to his experiments with language. The result gives the artist's career the unity of a colorful and intricate puzzle.
Behind that puzzle were the great modernist themes of isolation, perpetuated desire, and the imagined dissolution of the self. These themes entered Duchamp's mind both from his social and cultural environment and from the shaping experience of his family; around them were woven the patterns of working and loving that Seigel uncovers in his life. Duchamp emerges not just as a coherent, understandable personality, but as an exemplary one, his very eccentricities reflecting essential dimensions of modern experience.
A mythic presence in modern culture, a hero whose story we tell for the sake of its valuable lessons, Duchamp opened the floodgates to a sea of questions about the nature and meaning of art. Seigel demands that we think again about these questions, and about the answers that Duchamp's heirs and followers have tried to give to them.… (mer)