Martin Harries

Bio

Martin Harries is professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine and works on twentieth-century theater, modernism, and theory. His most recent book is Theater after Film (University of Chicago Press, 2025) and he recently introduced a performance text by Asher Hartman in The Georgia Review (summer, 2025). His previous books are Forgetting Lot’s Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship (Fordham, 2007) and Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment (Stanford, 2000).

Contributions

Duchamp’s Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General by Thierry de Duve

From the Print Journal

Impish yet magisterial, Thierry de Duve continues a career’s investigation of what he now calls “Duchamp’s telegram.” The occasion of this telegram is the piece Duchamp dubbed Fountain (1917). From the start, de Duve is clear about what Fountain signifies: it “is situated at the juncture of two art worlds, one in which a urinal cannot possibly be art and one in which this urinal is art” (13). In this book, de Duve, among the most provocative of contemporary theorists of visual art, insistently identifies himself as an art historian. The questions the art historian pursues, with all the gathered evidence of

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