Readymades of Marcel Duchamp  

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that he selected then sometimes modified, as an antidote to "retinal art". By choosing the object, giving it a title and signing it, the object became the work of the artist.

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