Derridada

"This remarkable book is the first attempt to bring into dialogue two of the twentieth century's defining intellectual icons: artist Marcel Duchamp and philosopher Jacques Derrida. It not only shows how much these two very different thinkers had in common but also manages to shed new light on their respective artistic and philosophical itineraries. In Derridada, Thomas Deane Tucker has constructed a wonderfully baroque textual machine that is worthy of Duchamp and Derrida themselves and he sends us back to their works with a fresh and engaged eye."---Arthur Bradley, Lancaster University

"Thomas Deane Tucker's chiasmatic entwining of Derrida and Duchamp is a precise but accessible, cogent but playful, double session: a marvelous and unique explication and demonstration of the principle strategies of two of the twentieth century's most influential ocuvres. An antidote to the myriad arid applications of Derrida's thought, this book is a pleasure to read both for its style and for its substance."---Stuart Kendall, Eastern Kentucky University

Jacques Derrida said that deconstruction "takes place everywhere." Derridada reexamines the work of artist Marcel Duchamp as one of these places. Thomas Deane Tucker suggests that Duchamp belongs to deconstruction as much as deconstruction belongs to Duchamp; both bear the infra-thin mark of the other. He explores these marks through the themes of time and differance, language and the readymade, and the construction of self-identity through art. Derridada will be of interest to students and scholars interested in modernism and the avant-garde, as well as art history, critical theory, philosophy, visual culture studies, and art theory.