Enthroning the nothing: analogy, irony and meta-irony in Duchamp’s ready-mades according to Octavio Paz
Abstract
In this paper, we are going to develop a series of critical concepts from Octavio Paz’s essay works, specifically, those of analogy and irony, of clearly romantic and symbolist roots, and meta-irony, particularly conceptualized by the author to explain an aesthetic phenomenon of the Avant-garde. However, we will not devote ourselves to all the artists who renewed the forms of cultural creation at the beginning of the 20th century, but we will stop at the early work of a figure that was specially interesting to Octavio Paz: Marcel Duchamp. In this way, we are going to explain the evolution and application of these concepts through different reflections and authors of interest. We will observe that at the bottom of these reflections are found the keys of poetic modernity as understood by the Mexican poet, and that it manifested itself in a cultural trajectory that culminated or reached fullness, precisely, with Duchamp’s works.
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