Readymade Made Already?
Sung Kug Kim
Bi-King, 2010
– Artist unknown
– Artist very known
Pablo Picasso
Bull’s Head, 1942
The first readymade was made by Marcel Duchamp in 1913. In his Paris studio he mounted a bicycle wheel upside down onto a stool, spinning it occasionally just to watch it. “I enjoyed looking at it,” he said. “Just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in the fireplace.” According to André Breton and Paul Éluard’s Dictionnaire abrégé du Surréalisme, a readymade is “an ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist.”
Most of his early readymades have been lost or discarded, but years later he commissioned reproductions of many of them…..
Marcel Duchamp
Bicycle Wheel (Roue de bicyclette), 1913
