List of found art
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Below is a list of pieces, by artist, which are or include found objects, followed by the objects.
- Marcel DuchampMarcel DuchampMarcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...
(Recent research has suggested that Duchamp's readymade artworks may have been custom-made impostors. However, there are accounts of Walter ArensbergWalter ArensbergWalter Conrad Arensberg was an American art collector, critic and poet. His father was part owner and president of a crucible steel company. He majored in English and philosophy at Harvard University...
and Joseph StellaJoseph StellaJoseph Stella was an Italian-born, American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America. He is associated with the American Precisionism movement of the 1910s-1940s....
being with Duchamp when he purchased the original Fountain at J. L. Mott Iron WorksJ. L. Mott Iron WorksThe J. L. Mott Iron Works was established by Jordan L. Mott in New York in the area now called Mott Haven in 1828; the business was continued by his son, J.L. Mott, Jr. The elder Mott specialised in the manufacture of cooking-stoves fueled with anthracite coal...
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- Apolinère EnameledApolinère Enameled"Apolinère Enameled" was painted circa 1916 by Marcel Duchamp, as an advertisement for paint. The picture depicts a girl painting a bed-frame with white enamelled paint. The depiction of the frame deliberately includes conflicting perspective lines, to produce an impossible object. To emphasise the...
(1916), bed frame - Bicycle WheelBicycle WheelBicycle Wheel is a readymade by Marcel Duchamp consisting of a bicycle fork with front wheel mounted upside-down on a wooden stool.In 1913 at his Paris studio he mounted the bicycle wheel upside down onto a stool, spinning it occasionally just to watch it. Later he denied that its creation was...
(1913) - Bottle RackBottle RackThe Bottle Rack is an artwork created in 1914 by Dada artist Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp labeled the piece a "readymade", a term he used to describe his collection of ordinary, manufactured objects not commonly associated with art...
(1914) - Comb (1916)
- In advance of the broken arm (1915), snow shovel
- FountainFountain (Duchamp)Fountain is a 1917 work by Marcel Duchamp. It is one of the pieces which he called readymades. In such pieces he made use of an already existing object. In this case Duchamp used a urinal, which he titled Fountain and signed "R. Mutt". Readymades also go by the term Found object...
(1917), urinal - Pulled at 4 pins (1915), chimney ventilator
- Trap (1917), coatrack
- Apolinère Enameled
- Nicolas CollinsNicolas CollinsNicolas Collins is a composer of mostly electronic music and former student of Alvin Lucier. He received a B.A. and M.A...
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- Still Lives (1992), ten measures of a piece by Gioseffo GuamiGioseffo GuamiGioseffo Guami was an Italian composer, organist, violinist and singer of the late Renaissance Venetian School...
(1540-1611) on a skipping CD player - Still (After) Lives (1992), Still Lives notated for performance
- Still Lives (1992), ten measures of a piece by Gioseffo Guami
- Michael Craig Martin
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- An Oak TreeAn Oak TreeAn Oak Tree is a conceptual work of art created by Michael Craig-Martin RA in 1973. The piece consists of two units; an object, a glass of water on a glass shelf, and a text...
- An Oak Tree
- Man RayMan RayMan Ray , born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal...
(worked closely with Duchamp)
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- The GiftThe Gift (sculpture)The Gift is an early readymade by Man Ray , consisting of an iron with fourteen thumb tacks glued to its sole, made in 1921 in Paris....
(Le Cadeau in French) (1921), iron with fourteen nails glued to its sole - The enigma of Isidore Ducasse (1920, reconstructed 1971), an unseen object (a sewing machine) wrapped in cloth and tied with cord
- Object to Be DestroyedObject to Be DestroyedObject to Be Destroyed is a work by American artist Man Ray, originally created in 1923. The work, destroyed in 1957, consisted of a metronome with a photograph of an eye attached to its swinging arm. It was remade in multiple copies in later years, and renamed Indestructible Object...
(1923-1957) and Indestructible Object (1958), metronome(s) with a photograph of an eye attached to its swinging arm
- The Gift