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    On what grounds did Marcel Duchamp prefer to call his famous "bicycle wheel mounted on a stool" a "ready-made" rather than a "found object" (objet trouvé)?

    Question #60463. Asked by Flem-ish. (Nov 09 05 3:38 PM)


    peasypod

    		Here is a first-hand account from the guy himself:

    http://www.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/phil%20of%20art/duchamp6.htm

    Nov 09 05, 4:41 PM
    Flem-ish

    		The answer is implied in what Duchamp says about his ready-made.
    A found object is not mass-manufactured and is not chosen at random. It is selected because of its aesthetic qualities or presumed aesthetic merits.
    See http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0039879.html
    A shared yay for Marcel Duchamp and Peasypod?


    Nov 09 05, 10:50 PM
    peasypod

    		I'll share my banana with Duchamp, as long as I get the good end...

    Nov 09 05, 10:57 PM

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