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The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art". [1] By simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the found object became art.
The term readymade was first used by French artist Marcel Duchamp to describe the works of art he made from manufactured objects. It has since often been applied more generally to artworks by other artists made in this way. Introduction.
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For Duchamp, the readymade is in direct conversation with industry and manufacturing: by taking mass-made objects and elevating them by putting them in new contexts and defining them as art, he questions the very process through which something becomes art in the first place.
ready-made, everyday object selected and designated as art; the name was coined by the French artist Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp created the first ready-made, Bicycle Wheel (1913), which consisted of a wheel mounted on a stool, as a protest against the excessive importance attached to works of art.
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Jan 15, 2016 · Over the course of the 20th century, the freedom inherent in Duchamp’s idea of the Readymade opened up new worlds of art—Pop, Minimalism, Conceptualism—and his expansive influence is embedded, like DNA, in the work of artists from Robert Rauschenberg to Andy Warhol to Jeff Koons.
Marcel Duchamp's scandalous L.H.O.O.Q is an altered postcard reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. For this "assisted" (which implied a degree of manipulation as opposed to the "unassisted") readymade, Duchamp penciled a moustache and a goatee over Mona Lisa's upper lip and chin, and re-titled the artwork.
Fountain is a ready-made work of art created by Marcel Duchamp in 1917. It consists of a common urinal signed “R. Mutt” and is considered the most influential and perhaps one of the most...
