Marcel Duchamp and the Readymade - MoMA
WEBMarcel Duchamp and the Readymade Chance Creations: Collage, Photomontage, and Assemblage Artistic Collaboration Word Play
Marcel Duchamp Bicycle Wheel New York, 1951 (third version
WEBMost of Duchamp’s Readymades were individual objects that he repositioned or signed and called art, but Bicycle Wheel is what he called an “assisted Readymade,” made by combining more than one utilitarian item to form a work of art.
Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades: Celebrating the Centennial - MoMA
WEBJan 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.
Readymade - MoMA
WEBA term coined by Marcel Duchamp in 1916 to describe prefabricated, often mass-produced objects isolated from their intended use and elevated to the status of art by the artist choosing and designating them as such.
Marcel Duchamp - MoMA
WEBThis was one of the first of what he referred to as a "ready-made," a work of art that is deemed so simply through the selection of the artist. In 1915, Duchamp created "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" (1915-1923) comprised of two large sheets of painted glass in two sections.
Marcel Duchamp. In Advance of the Broken Arm. August 1964
WEBHis Readymades —mass-produced, functional objects he designated as art—challenged many accepted assumptions and traditions, namely that art should reflect an artist’s skills, or even be handcrafted by the artist. Duchamp asserted that an artist could create simply by making choices.
Marcel Duchamp Rotary Demisphere (Precision Optics) Paris, 1925
WEBMarcel Duchamp Rotary Demisphere (Precision Optics) Paris, 1925. Rotary Demisphere is one of several works in which Duchamp experimented with mechanisms that produce optical effects. When set in motion, the circles appear to pulsate.
Marcel Duchamp. Fresh Widow. New York 1920 - MoMA
WEBConstructed by a carpenter in accordance with Duchamp's instructions, Fresh Widow is a reduced scale version of the traditional floor-length French window. Duchamp covered the glass panes with panels of black leather, obstructing the metaphorical view through the window that is associated with illusionistic painting.
Duchamp, Rauschenberg, and Assemblage: A Preview of - MoMA
WEBNov 28, 2012 · The tire in Rauschenberg’s assemblage alludes to Marcel Duchamp’s 1913 Bicycle Wheel, a readymade work of art that, as Hauptman describes, “subverted such principles of aesthetic appreciation as originality, authorship, skill, and taste.”
Marcel Duchamp. Rotary Demisphere (Precision Optics). Paris, …
WEBCurator Leah Dickerman: The Rotary Demisphere that Marcel Duchamp made is a kinetic object that moves with the goal of producing optical effects. Viewers were instructed to stand directly opposite the machine, a meter away.