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Unmaking the Museum: Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades in Context

Author : marcelduchamp_admin Replica of Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel, 1916 Image Source

“Bicycle Wheel was not intended to be a remarkable piece of art, but rather a personal experiment. However, just because the initial idea behind it wasn’t art-oriented doesn’t mean that Duchamp didn’t whole-heartedly embrace the wonderful uproar and contradictions it later acquired when becoming designated as art.”

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