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Dalia Judovitz's book brings Marcel Duchamp into the limelight of a postmodern interpretation that focuses on the artist's underlying wit and sense of chance and movement as an example of mechanical twentieth-century art- making. Judovitz seems to understand clearly the almost preposterous assumptions that make Duchamp's work so clever, and she eloquently places his puzzling works within the context of his historic reputation for altering the foundations of modern art. * Leonardo * Judovitz's analyses of Duchamp's works are often dazzling, sometimes genuinely funny, and always interesting. She does what a good critic should be able to do: she gets her reader to look anew at the works discussed. On the basis of these analyses, she attributes to Duchamp fundamental and often revolutionary insights into aesthetics, art history, economics, feminism, and value theory. * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism * The book appeals not just to art historians and critics of literature but to philosophers of methodology. Would that psychologists, anthropologists, and historians see and read this elegant and consummately designed object! Reprinting crisp reproductions of many of Duchamp's works and using a cursive typeface styled after Duchamp's signature for chapter headings and marginalia, the book is a delight to touch and behold. Both the author and the press deserve high praise not just for the content and form of the book but also for what it does to reinvent our relations with art and language. * SubStance *

"""The book appeals not just to art historians and critics of literature but to philosophers of methodology. Would that psychologists, anthropologists, and historians see and read this elegant and consummately designed object! Reprinting crisp reproductions of many of Duchamp's works and using a cursive typeface styled after Duchamp's signature for chapter headings and marginalia, the book is a delight to touch and behold. Both the author and the press deserve high praise not just for the content and form of the book but also for what it does to reinvent our relations with art and language."" * SubStance * ""Judovitz's analyses of Duchamp's works are often dazzling, sometimes genuinely funny, and always interesting. She does what a good critic should be able to do: she gets her reader to look anew at the works discussed. On the basis of these analyses, she attributes to Duchamp fundamental and often revolutionary insights into aesthetics, art history, economics, feminism, and value theory."" * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism * ""Dalia Judovitz's book brings Marcel Duchamp into the limelight of a postmodern interpretation that focuses on the artist's underlying wit and sense of chance and movement as an example of ""mechanical"" twentieth-century art- making. Judovitz seems to understand clearly the almost preposterous assumptions that make Duchamp's work so clever, and she eloquently places his puzzling works within the context of his historic reputation for altering the foundations of modern art."" * Leonardo *"

The book appeals not just to art historians and critics of literature but to philosophers of methodology. Would that psychologists, anthropologists, and historians see and read this elegant and consummately designed object! Reprinting crisp reproductions of many of Duchamp's works and using a cursive typeface styled after Duchamp's signature for chapter headings and marginalia, the book is a delight to touch and behold. Both the author and the press deserve high praise not just for the content and form of the book but also for what it does to reinvent our relations with art and language. * SubStance * Judovitz's analyses of Duchamp's works are often dazzling, sometimes genuinely funny, and always interesting. She does what a good critic should be able to do: she gets her reader to look anew at the works discussed. On the basis of these analyses, she attributes to Duchamp fundamental and often revolutionary insights into aesthetics, art history, economics, feminism, and value theory. * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism * Dalia Judovitz's book brings Marcel Duchamp into the limelight of a postmodern interpretation that focuses on the artist's underlying wit and sense of chance and movement as an example of mechanical twentieth-century art- making. Judovitz seems to understand clearly the almost preposterous assumptions that make Duchamp's work so clever, and she eloquently places his puzzling works within the context of his historic reputation for altering the foundations of modern art. * Leonardo *

The enigmatic Marcel Duchamp continues to challenge all who probe his secrets. Judovitz's daunting venture, to 'unpack' their protean implications, is . . . intricate and subtle. --Choice

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Dalia Judovitz is Professor and Chair in the Department of French and Italian at Emory University. She is author of Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: The Origins of Modernity (1988) and coeditor of Dialectic and Narrative (1993).

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