Readymade Man
\nChanging the course of 20th-century art
\nWhen is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887\u20131968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist\u2019s Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in a gallery, sent shock waves through the art world establishment that reverberate right through to today.<\/p>\n
This essential introduction distills all the daring and the scandal of Duchamp\u2019s practice into one essential overview not only of a pioneering creative but also of a critical moment in Western culture. From his groundbreaking blend of abstraction, Cubism, and Futurism in Nude Descending a Staircase (1912) to his forays into the now-iconic \u201creadymades\u201d such as Bicycle Wheel (1913) and Bottle Rack (1914) we explore how Duchamp consistently challenged the notion of what art is and, in so doing, opened up a world of conceptual possibilities beyond the \u201cretinal\u201d experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Readymade Man Changing the course of 20th-century art When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887\u20131968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist\u2019s Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in a gallery, sent shock waves through the art world establishment that reverberate right through to today….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":108835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[4522,13533],"product_tag":[9083],"class_list":["post-108834","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-art-en","product_cat-books","product_tag-art-en","pa_author_att-janis-mink-en","pa_cover-hardcover","pa_format-21-x-26-cm-en","pa_isbn-20945","pa_language-eng","pa_pages-96-en","pa_published-2016-11-22-en","pa_publisher-taschen-en-en","first","instock","sold-individually","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n