Fountain
Marcel Duchamp
- Duchamp
- Sculpture
- Brick
- New Zealand
- Marcus Moore
- Adrian Hall
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Title
Fountain
Artist
Marcel Duchamp
Year
1917
Medium
Readymade sculpture
Dimensions
40.6cm x 38.1cm x 32.2cm
In Exhibitions
Peripheral Relations (2012)
Adam Art Gallery
Duchamp: In context (1997)
Auckaland Art Gallery
Duchamp rejected purely visual or what he dubbed "retinal pleasure," deeming it to be facile, in favor of more intellectual, concept-driven approaches to art-making and, for that matter, viewing.
Kate Maxton
Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain was a revolutionary, brazen work of art that has been highly controversial. Though the idea that a urinal turned sideways can be considered art may initially seem absurd, the fact that viewers are forced to question the meaning of art is what gives Fountain its importance.
Sean Hague
The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called “retinal art”. By simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or joining, titling and sign- ing it, the object became art.
Charlie Gledhill