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Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp. The Readymades. The Bicycle Wheel, 1913 replicas: assisted readymades: bicycle rim mounted on wood stool. 1 st bicycle wheel was lost or destroyed

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Marcel Duchamp

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  1. Marcel Duchamp The Readymades

  2. The Bicycle Wheel, 1913replicas: assisted readymades: bicycle rim mounted on wood stool • 1st bicycle wheel was lost or destroyed • “To see the wheel turning was very soothing, very comforting,…I enjoyed looking at it, just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in a fireplace.” • “Can one make works which are not works of ‘art’?” 1913

  3. Bottle rack, 1914replicas: metal bottle racks • 1st pure or “unassisted readymade” • Original eventually lost or discarded • From the Grande Bazar de l’Hotel-de-Ville, Duchamp purchased an ordinary bottle dryer • 5 tiers, 50 projecting spokes • Invited Suzanne to add an inscription at the base of the bottle rack which he stipulated should be written “in small letters painted with an oil-painting brush, in silver-white color.” Only adding the inscription should she sign the work, which should read: “[after] Marcel Duchamp” [a readymade from a distance]

  4. “The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply note that it was a bottle rack which changed its destination.” • Although Duchamp claimed the readymades were selected with the intention of avoiding taste, he confessed that with the passage of time, it was inevitable that their familiar appearance would result in causing them to acquire certain aesthetic qualities. “I will keep something around for a long time [like the Bottle rack] then to my horror, it starts looking beautiful. Out it goes! That damned “hedgehog” has become a great trial. It has begin to look too good.”

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