studio and links
theory of the rectoversion
history of the rectoversion
Introduction  of the bookPart I of the bookPart II of the bookPart III of the bookEpilogue of the book
 


Following Marcel Duchamp who wrote:
" the onlooker makes the painting",
Rectoversion today declares:
" the onlooker makes the front (recto)".

 
 
 

SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK
" RECTOVERSION®, THE EXIT "
(356 pages, ADAP 2001)

Notice
Foreword

 
 

 

Part I
APOLOGY FOR RECTITUDE
Chapter 1
Dualistic construction

  • the dualistic language
  • dualistic partiality
  • devalorization of the back (verso)
  • the curse of left-handed persons
  • the domination of the right-handed

Chapter 2
The XVII century and classic culture

  • the Great Century
  • Science, Philosophy and Reason
  • Art and Literature
  • misery, witchcraft and centralism
  • traditional front encounters the baroque back
  • perspective and single point of view
  • sustainability of the classic culture

Chapter 3
Rectitude and power

  • origin of the term straight
  • what is straight is upright
  • what is straight is exact
  • what is straight rectifies
  • what is straight has priority
  • what is straight directs
  • twisted wood makes straight fire
  • what is straight is sturdy
 

 

Part II
APOLOGY FOR SINGLE-SIDED PAINTING
Chapter 4
The canvas at the service of the front (recto)

  • wood panels and canvas on a stretcher
  • canvas and weaving
  • the back of the canvas
  • canvas and lightness
  • canvas and single direction
  • canvas and Rectoversion

Chapter 5
saturation of the front (recto)

  • reason opposed to the sacred
  • the ancestral overload of the front (recto)
  • the contemporary overload of the front
  • the reduced front (recto)
  • the exceptions that confirm the rule

Chapter 6
The Marcel Duchamp complex

  • showmen of horror
  • analysis of the ready-made
  • more intellectual, you die!
  • more body, you die!
  • more shitty, you die!
  • the Duchamp complex needs medical treatment
  • digesting the Duchamp complex
 

 

Part III
THE THIRD WAY
Chapter 7
Woman and the back (verso)

  • origin of the word ' verso ' (back)
  • the woman with the power
  • flexibility and firmness
  • exteriority and interiority
  • the classic side of interiors
  • the 'area' of the ' verso'
  • yin and yang

Chapter 8
Virtual front and back

  • Rectoversion and hegelian synthesis
  • the onlooker makes the front
    (recto)
  • difference and false ambivalence
  • what is shown and what is hidden
  • to show what is hidden
  • 'Recto verso' and vice versa
  • the breath of light

Chapter 9
The diverting the painting

  • disobedience in the link
  • what is Rectoversion?
  • Rectoversion seen by the University
  • iconography in Rectoversion
  • the irrational in painting

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY


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