"What about a modernist mayonnaise presenting itself to a formalist culinary critic’s judgement..."

“What about a modernist mayonnaise presenting itself to a formalist culinary critic’s judgement of taste? He finds it awful but he doesn’t stop with his own judgement. This mayonnaise is put together in such a manner, he says to himself while tasting it, that something of the pure ingredients that go into it are to be found in the final results. It brings off the feat of displaying its composition to me, of taking the ‘conventions of mayonnaise’ for its subject matter, of being a self-referential mayonnaise, a ‘mayonnaise about mayonnaise’, in short, a critique of mayonnaise brought about by means of mayonnaise itself.”

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Thierry de Duve, Echos of the Readymade: Critique of Pure Modernism

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