Sentence examples for readymade work from inspiring English sources

Or perhaps a respectful nod to the apple Ono once presented as a readymade work, on a Plexiglass pedestal, back in the mid-1960s?

The editorial in The Blind Man - whose authorship Duchamp never formally acknowledged, any more than he officially owned up to being R Mutt - is actually more important than the urinal itself, which was not his first "readymade" work of art.

It's a celebration of the modern world, of the clean-minded technology of the bicycle, and points immediately to the ideas that were in Duchamp's mind when he dreamed up his first "readymade" work of art - a spoked wheel suspended in a metal fork fixed to the seat of a wooden stool.

The heavy odds against finding the desired (and, as it were, readymade) work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene orderliness of imagined reality, give a special tense dazzle and an atmosphere of tour de force to any photographs that succeed in the search.

Other famous readymade works of art are either coldly timeless – no one thinks of Marchel Duchamp's (remade) porcelain urinal as old, even though it has the date 1916 scrawled on it, and Carl Andre's bricks could have been bought at a builders' yard yesterday – or, like Hirst's animals in formaldehyde, age in a way that weakens their impact.

The long-practised tradition of three-dimensional sculpture has come a long way from its foundations in wood and stone, expanding to such a degree that it seems anything can fulfill its title, thanks in large part to the tradition of 'found object' and readymade works initiated by artists like Duchamp.

Manipulated readymades often work on a continuum that runs from the flimsy to the flat-footed, and this show, at its weakest, slides toward these extremes.

He continued to produce Readymades while working on The Large Glass, essentially a mash-up of three of his earlier projects, which he worked on over an eight-year period.

In all the years during which he was evolving the idea of the readymade, Duchamp was working on an immensely ambitious masterwork, The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even, which involved elaborate research, starting in a Paris library with his reading treatises on perspective.

The dichotomy echoes both readymades and the work of Donald Judd.

There are two fabricated objects that push conceptual art to its limits by Philippe Thomas (d. Paris, 1995), which were made through his artist-as-agency "readymades belong to everyone®." Anyone, who purchased a work from readymades belong to everyone® became the author of that work.