![]() Dust is also the unwanted of modernity itself, as it represents a potentially subversive sister-part to urban, masculine modernity's valorisation of machinery, glass, and steel. ![]() Kennedy focuses on the strange presence of dust in the work of these two artists and argues that as an abject object - it is literally the unwanted of domestic space - the idea of dust engages radically modernism on a material level. In his paper, "Dust and the Avant-Garde," Jake Kennedy presents an interdisciplinary exploration of experimental modernism in the work of visual artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Gertrude Stein. ![]()
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