El misterioso caso del asesinato del arte moderno

We have a hundred pages to solve a mysterious case, a crime that was committed a century ago and in which Modern Art was dealt a mortal blow and what we call Contemporary Art was illuminated. The body of crime: the work Criadero de dust (1920). The main suspects: Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. The murder weapon: a large glass, a camera, specks of dust. The mobile: turning the artist-medium into an artist-Midas. Through this essay, articulated in the style of a classic detective novel, we may not find the real murderer, but along the way we will better understand a key moment in the History of Art, when the figure of the Author and the notion of Work radically changed. , its relationship with concepts such as Time, Chance or Beauty, and its very constitution: what is art, who and where does it, when it is produced, why do we call it that.