"Joseph Beuys", "Andy Warhol", "Yves Klein", and "Marcel Duchamp" form an unlikely quartet, but they each played a singular role in shaping a new avant-garde for the 1960s and beyond. Each of them staged brash, even shocking, events and produced works that challenged the way the mainstream art world[...]

Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his phot[...]

Boka inneholder to artikler fra 1980-tallet, hentet fra Kant after Duchamp (1998). Readymaden utvisker alle forskjeller mellom det å skape kunst og det å bedømme kunst. Kunstneren velger en gjenstand og kaller den kunst, eller, noe som går ut på det samme, plasserer den i en kontekst der gjenst[...]