Saturday, January 29, 2011

Duchamp: regular arts with irregular things

Duchamp, New York 1913

Duchamp, NewYork 1917

The ready-made, therefore, is a common article of daily use (a hanger and a bottle rack, a urinal, etc.). which becomes a work of art by the artist and once taken place as it is in a different situation from that of use, which would have its own (in this case a museum or art gallery). The added value of the artist is the operation of choice, or even random object identification, capture and isolation of the object.

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