The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade. One can regard them as experiments in art, or mock works of ...

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In 1919 Marcel Duchamp penciled a mustache ... and stripes and Duchamp’s readymades were soon turning up in the work of major 20th-century artists and art movements. From Stuart Davis ...

From Paparazzi's gilded Bel Air mansion to Abracadabra's brutalist club and a punk-inspired prison in Telephone, these music ...

Surrealism and Pop Art remain some of the most popular and loved art movements of the 20th century, well-known even by those who are not deeply interested in the history of art. The aestheticized ...

Where it stands: Comedian can be placed in a long line of conceptual artworks where everyday objects are transformed into art. Marcel Duchamp started producing his "readymades" 110 years ago ...

What changed as the ’60s dawned was that Warhol, just then swerving from ads to art, came to use that entire commercial aesthetic as a ready-made, the way Marcel Duchamp had presented ...

Duchamp called it “ready-made”: elevating an industrial object to “work of art” status simply because the artist chose it. Credit: May 1917, Marcel Duchamp. But theories don’t clean ...

The 25th edition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize will be held at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris from 26th September, 2025 to 22nd February, 2026. ByLee Sharrock, Contributor. Forbes contributors ...