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This doesn't just go for paintings but the readymade as well.
This signature was a way of thinking about the readymade as art - it was not by, but "from" the artist.
In turning hers into art without, as Rauschenberg had, painting on it or hanging it up, Emin created a readymade as pungent in its way as Duchamp's urinal.
The readymade as it was deployed by Duchamp gave birth to conceptual forms that are "interesting" but rarely grab you where it matters.
However, what is clear is the direct link between Duchamp's "readymade", as the artist called it, and the conceptual art that dominates today - Tracey Emin's Bed being a prime example.
He could not even persuade his (supposedly) open-minded peers of the Society of Independent Artists in New York to exhibit this "readymade," as he called the object (though, in their defense, they did not know the true identity of the mysterious and cheeky R. Mutt).
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Duchamp is the father of conceptual art and best known for his readymades, as in the urinal he designated as art in 1917.
It no longer seems absurd, as its consequences continue to ramify, to say that Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade was as startling an intellectual innovation as the contemporary intellectual breakthroughs of Freud and Einstein.
Marcel Duchamp, the first artist who simply "chose" readymade things as art, insisted that art should appeal to the brain instead of the heart.
Students can start their own school chapters, or "SafeBAE Squads," and receive readymade flyers to use, as well as a brief introduction to their Title IX rights to go to school without facing gender-based harassment.
Continuing the tradition of Marcel Duchamp's readymades such as Fountain, or Bottlerack, it sets out to overthrow our traditional conceptions of what an art object should be made of and what it should look like.
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