Derrida Marxist?

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Sat Dec 19 08:08:03 PST 1998


In message <367B0230.EFDF2E87 at uswest.net>, Charles Miller <bautiste at uswest.net> writes
>> "Doyle Saylor" wrote:
>> But there is nothing in Duchamp that is about
>> deconstruction of other painters.
> The deconstructionist character of the ready-mades strikes as one
> sign of Duchamp's alignment with Derrida/others.

I was once told that the greatest of all the surrealists, Rene Magritte wrote sub-Heideggerian philosophical tracts, but I've never been able to confirm it. Translations would be a commercial triumph in the culture studies departments I suspect, though no doubt the work itself would be a disappointment.

Magritte also painted for his local branch of the Communist Party, though one suspects that the embarrassed branch secretary would have just stuck them away in a corner somewhere, to be lost forever, as they hardly suited the socialist realism policy. Some plodding antiwar allegories survive.

-- Jim heartfield



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