readymade
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- noun
- /ˈrɛdimeɪd/
- Specialized
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objeto prefabricado
- When first displayed in the artist's studio, the readymades were studio paraphernalia, personal objects whose importance most viewers would not recognize.
- readymade object
- Duchamp's readymades
Examples
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The artist chose a bicycle wheel as a readymade to challenge traditional notions of art.
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When Duchamp left Paris for New York City in 1915, he had already completed three readymades.
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From these first readymades on, the meaning of the objects would be context specific.
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Until the 1960s, the readymades were primarily exhibited alone or in small groups.
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Modern artist Marcel Duchamp's concept of the readymade remains influential, though controversial.
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With the readymades, however, Duchamp engaged questions of geography and landscape not typically associated with sculpture.
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Before leaving Paris, Duchamp began his series of readymades by selecting objects that recalled the tower and the wheel.
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The link between Bottle Rack and the Eiffel Tower was strengthened by the readymade's companion in Duchamp's studio, Bicycle Wheel (Figure 8).
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Many galleries display a variety of readymades to provoke thought about everyday objects.
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Marcel Duchamp popularized the concept of a readymade by using manufactured items in his art.
Synonyms
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A painting or sculpture that shows an artist's idea
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An item like a shirt or chair made before you buy it
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Readymade as an art noun was made famous by artist Marcel Duchamp for ordinary manufactured items shown as art, and the word still comes from ready ('prepared') and made ('already made'). So a readymade in art is a common object not made as art but presented as art.