Readymade
readymade (found object as artwork)
noun REH-di-meyd Rare
Origin: from English 'ready-made'
Usage Note
Readymade refers to a manufactured object designated as art by the artist's choice and contextualisation, most famously by Marcel Duchamp's Fontaine (a urinal). The concept challenged the idea that art must be handmade and transformed art theory permanently.
Examples
"Duchamps Readymade 'Fontaine' löste bei seiner Präsentation einen Skandal aus."
Natural Translation
Duchamp's readymade 'Fountain' caused a scandal when it was presented.
Literal Translation
Duchamp's readymade 'Fountain' triggered at its presentation a scandal.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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