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A 3 page research paper that describes and analyzes "Fountain," one of Marcel Duchamp's readymade works. The writer defines this term and explains the tremendous influence that defining these everyday objects as "art" had on the twentieth century art world. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Marcel Duchamp/Fountain (1917) Research Compiled for
, Enterprises Inc. By - March, 2011 Early in April 1917, three men met for a pleasant lunch in New York City. They
were Joseph Stella, an American artist; Walter Arensberg, an affluent art collector; and Marcel Duchamp, also an artist.1 After their meal, they walked to J.L. Mott Ironworks, a plumbing supply
company on 118 Fifth Avenue and Duchamp purchased a "Bedfordshire model porcelain urinal" and, later at this studio, he rotated the urinal 90 degrees, signed it "R. Mutt 1917," and
titled it "Fountain."2 It was subsequently "offered for exhibition at the New York Society of Independent Artists."3 Signed and dated "R. Mutt 1917," The "Fountain" was actually a urinal, purchased
at a plumbing supply store.4 It was meant as a political statement that would illustrate the "hypocrisy of the so-called avant-garde and the strict limits to their anti-traditional cult of
originality."5 White porcelain, the "Fountain" is on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and measures 15 in. x 19 1/4 in. x 24 5/8 in.6 Duchamp (1887-1968)
is acknowledged to be among the most significant and influential twentieth century artists.7 His 1917 "Fountain" is considered to be one of the "most notorious" of the artists "readymades," that
is, "a mass-produced object that the artist did not make but selected," sometimes, modifying it.8 The traditional interpretation of Duchamps readymades is that they are works of "anti-art," that
is "works that replace the notion of physical artistic craft with an intellectual act of choice."9 As this suggests, Duchamp directly challenged the aesthetic and conceptual conventions of the art
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