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  2. Readymades of Marcel Duchamp - Wikipedia

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    Duchamp only made a total of 13 readymades over a period of time of 30 years. [4] He felt that he could only avoid the trap of his own taste by limiting output, though he was aware of the contradiction of avoiding taste, yet also selecting an object. Taste, he felt, whether "good" or "bad", was the "enemy of art". [5]

  3. Fountain (Duchamp) - Wikipedia

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    Eljer Co. Highest Quality Two-Fired Vitreous China Catalogue 1918 Bedfordshire No. 700. Marcel Duchamp had arrived in the United States less than two years prior to the creation of Fountain and had become involved with Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and Beatrice Wood (amongst others) in the creation of an anti-rational, anti-art, proto-Dada cultural movement in New York City.

  4. Found object - Wikipedia

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    Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917; photograph by Alfred Stieglitz. A found object (a calque from the French objet trouvé), or found art, [1] [2] [3] is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function. [4]

  5. L.H.O.O.Q. - Wikipedia

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    L.H.O.O.Q. (French pronunciation: [ɛl aʃ o o ky]) is a work of art by Marcel Duchamp. First conceived in 1919, the work is one of what Duchamp referred to as readymades, or more specifically a rectified ready-made. [2]

  6. Marcel Duchamp - Wikipedia

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    Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. It began in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1916, and spread to Berlin shortly thereafter. [33] To quote Dona Budd's The Language of Art Knowledge, Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I.

  7. The Gift (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    The Gift (Le Cadeau in French) is a readymade sculpture by Man Ray, consisting of an iron with fourteen thumb tacks glued to its sole. An iconic work of the Dada movement, it was created spontaneously and exhibited at the opening of Ray's first solo show in Paris, at Phillippe Soupault's Galerie Six on December 3, 1921.

  8. Appreciation: Nikki Giovanni made me a poet. Listen, and she ...

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    A former student of Nikki Giovanni's recalls the fateful day when the poet and activist convinced him he was an artist. Then came the shocking mass shooting at Virginia Tech.

  9. Bottle Rack - Wikipedia

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    Marcel Duchamp claimed to have bought the Bottle Rack at a department store called Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville near the Paris city hall. [5] The Bottle Rack was a typical, metal rack used for the drying of bottles, but the spiky, aggressive appearance of the piece earned it the name of Hedgehog.

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