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  2. Readymades of Marcel Duchamp - Wikipedia

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    Duchamp only made a total of 13 readymades over a period of time of 30 years. [4] He felt that he could only avoid the trap of his own taste by limiting output, though he was aware of the contradiction of avoiding taste, yet also selecting an object. Taste, he felt, whether "good" or "bad", was the "enemy of art". [5]

  3. Fountain (Duchamp) - Wikipedia

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    The artist chose an object of every-day life, erased its usual significance by giving it a new title, and from this point of view, gave a new purely esthetic meaning to the object. [ 19 ] [ 32 ] Menno Hubregtse argues that Duchamp may have chosen Fountain as a readymade because it parodied Robert J. Coady's exaltation of industrial machines as ...

  4. Found object - Wikipedia

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    Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917; photograph by Alfred Stieglitz. A found object (a calque from the French objet trouvé), or found art, [1] [2] [3] is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function. [4]

  5. 30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking ... - AOL

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    To give you a glimpse of how amazing this connection can be, here's a list of man-made objects that fit the bill. #1 Bird Safe Glass. Every day, hundreds of birds die from flying into glass ...

  6. 30 Mind-Blowing Hidden Features of Everyday Objects We're ...

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    When measuring from inside an object, the hook compresses into the slot, and when measuring from the outside, it pulls out, starting from the true zero point. Hindis TV / YouTube 18.

  7. Here's an inside look at how M&M's are made - AOL

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    Next, the chocolates are sent through the cooling tunnels to ensure they are cooled and ready for the coloring process. ... "Millions of M&M's are made here each day," Eide says. The factory ...

  8. Marcel Duchamp - Wikipedia

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    Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (UK: / ˈ dj uː ʃ ɒ̃ /, US: / dj uː ˈ ʃ ɒ̃, dj uː ˈ ʃ ɑː m p /; [1] French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.

  9. Appropriation (art) - Wikipedia

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    In France in the 60s, a group of artists called the New Realists used banal objects in their art, such as the sculptor Cesar [30] who compressed cars to create monumental sculptures or the artist Arman [31] who included everyday machine-made objects—ranging from buttons and spoons to automobiles and boxes filled with trash.