{"id":12012,"date":"2009-12-13T18:25:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T18:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/13\/marcel-duchamp-and-the-superiority-of-the-useless\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T18:25:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T18:25:22","slug":"marcel-duchamp-and-the-superiority-of-the-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/13\/marcel-duchamp-and-the-superiority-of-the-useless\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcel Duchamp and the Superiority of the Useless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c012876501b19970c-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marcelduchamp\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c012876501b19970c \" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c012876501b19970c-320wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artinthepicture.com\/artists\/Marcel_Duchamp\/\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Marcel Duchamp<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> abandoned art for chess because of the latter&#39;s superior uselessness. Art objects, after all, have exchange value as commodities, and may make the artist some money. But with few exceptions chess lies entirely beyond the sphere of the utile. In this sense, the art of the 64 squares is the highest art. There is little danger that Caissa&#39;s acolytes will fill their bellies from her service. There is just no market for the artistry of chess games, not even those of the very highest quality. <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chessgames.com\/player\/marcel_duchamp.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> you can review some of Duchamp&#39;s games.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcel Duchamp abandoned art for chess because of the latter&#39;s superior uselessness. Art objects, after all, have exchange value as commodities, and may make the artist some money. But with few exceptions chess lies entirely beyond the sphere of the utile. In this sense, the art of the 64 squares is the highest art. There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/13\/marcel-duchamp-and-the-superiority-of-the-useless\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marcel Duchamp and the Superiority of the Useless&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-aesthetics","category-chess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}