Readymades of Marcel Duchamp

The current version was restored to an earlier stable version with the edit summary “Restoring to version before disruption (see ANI)”. current

## Old (Oct 14, 2025): -Framed the topic as “refers to a body of work,” foregrounding its importance for appropriation art and pop art, quoting Breton -discusses “a totally fictitious relationship between supply and demand.” ## Current: -Reverts to a more standard formulation: readymades are ordinary manufactured objects… selected and modified against “retinal art,” with a [citation needed] after “the found object became art.” -Adds a specific claim that Duchamp made 13 readymades over ~30 years.

# Section breakdown:

Oct 14, 2025

Taxonomy · Readymades (with “Schwarz edition” as a subsection) · Assisted readymades · Rectified readymades · Bibliography · See also · References · External links

Current

Taxonomy · Readymades (with “Schwarz edition” as a subsection) · Assisted readymades · Rectified readymades · Bibliography · See also · References · External links

# References Removed

Sarah Boxer (1999), “Taking Jokes By Duchamp To Another Level of Art,” The New York Times. Appears in the old References (items 12 and again as 20); not present in the current References. Oct 14 2025