Passerelles Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art - Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Marcel Duchamp’s “3 Standard Stoppages” transcended the Cubists’ previous redefinition of painting as an autonomous formal configuration, replacing it by a science-based understanding of the image as an epistemic object. These pieces established not only the aesthetic of chance in twentieth-century art but inspired a new form of artistic imagination which, against the background of scientific logic, experimented with absurd constellations of ideas. |
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