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Άρθρο/Article: An Overview of the Seventeen Known Versions of Fountain

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917 original version
© cabinet magazine

The Fountain was a work of Marcel Duchamp, first presented in 1917. The original Fountain is lost. However, there are seventeen other known versions, the latest of which was made in 1964.

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Άρθρο/Article: Roving Eye. Ready for the Readymade

Robert Frank, Wavy Gravy, Paula Cooper, Danny Seymour,

Danny Lyon Rachel in Texas, 1969

©Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos Courtesy,

Edwynn Houk Gallery,Dektol.wordpress.com

[...]...It's hard for me to believe that Duchamp's first readymade is nearing its 100th anniversary-he made Bicycle Wheel in 1913. Since that time artists have taken advantage of the readymade's simple materiality and economy of means to offer pointed commentary on political, social, and esthetic issues. Given the advent of digitization, we consume images differently from even a decade ago. A selection of works in the exhibition considers the notion of images-as-readymades as well.......

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About Marcel Duchamp,1887-1968

Marcel Duchamp 1917, © www.dadart.com

[...]...Duchamp had other targets in mind when selecting a urinal as a readymade sculpture. He wanted to question the very notion of what constituted a work of art as decreed by academics and critics, whom he saw as the self-elected and largely unqualified arbiters of taste. His position was that if an artist said something was a work of art, having influenced its context and meaning, then it was a work of art, or at least demanded to be judged as such. He realised that although this was a fairly simple proposition to grasp, it would revolutionise art if accepted....

READ MORE: http://www.dadart.com/dadaism/dada/035a-duchamp-cage.html

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Άρθρο/Article: Celebrating 1913, a glory year for modern art

Art is soon to celebrate a dazzling centenary. When the new year chimes in and we enter 2013, it will be 100 years since Marcel Duchamp put a bicycle wheel on top of a wooden stool to invent the readymade; sinceHenri Matisse came back from a trip to Morocco that sparked his most radical phase; since the Armory Show gave America its first big blast of modern art; since........

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Bicycle Wheel, a readymade by Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel,
Replica 1963 (original 1913)

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες / More information:

http://www.toutfait.com/unmaking_the_museum/Bicycle%20Wheel.html

http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=81631

http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=49305&PICTAUS=TRUE

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Άρθρο/Article: Is the Readymade Still Revolutionary? It is what it is. Or is it?

CAM Houston hosts It is what it is. Or is it? this summer, a group show that considers how artists are using and making readymades. As the art form nears its 100th anniversary, the show surveys how IT has changed...