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Conceived as a Web site ("Right before the content sector of the Net crashed and burned," Ms. Berger said), ReadyMade the magazine will initially come out four times a year and be sold at newsstands, bookstores and branches of Urban Outfitters.
In 1917, he would create a more portable "architectural" readymade: the porcelain urinal he named Fountain.
Ai's art, the agent of this putative change, is based around the "readymade", the genre pioneered early in the 20th century by his hero, Marcel Duchamp, in which everyday objects are repurposed as art.
Her two polished-bronze versions of Duchamp's best-known readymade — the humble urinal that he placed on its back and renamed "Fountain" — underscore its assimilation as high art, and titling them "Fountain (Buddha)" and "Fountain (Madonna)" cleverly yet irrevocably alters their meaning.
Long before I was the director of Krrb (a kinder, friendlier, hyper-local version of Craigslist) or the editor of ReadyMade (the magazine, now defunct, that billed itself as the bible of reuse for Generations X, Y and Z), I was a skateboarding teenager in California trolling the Central Valley suburbs for building materials for ramps.
While we have readymade scripts for the actions of "patients" and "lovers," we have never encountered the kinky scenarios described in the ocelot joke.
Combining the found with the made, he used the camera to return the readymade to the realm of aesthetic decisionmaking, which Judd and the other Minimalists would also do, albeit using pre-existing materials and objects.
A performance by artist Hayley Newman promises Duchampian disorientation, while Turner prize-winner Martin Creed brings the spirit of the readymade to the event.
Knorr calls the documents "readymade".
So does this research prove the readymade is the ultimate triumph of art's emotional withdrawal from the world?
Duchamp's idea of the readymade is the final, triumphant endgame in western art's long campaign to establish the intellectual status of the artist (Duchamp, who officially gave up art to play tournament chess, was an authority on endgames).
