Tu m’ (detail)

A hatrack silhouette with 2 long and 3 short hook segments when rotated for reading; asymmetries and cropping are evident.

1918

2D painted shadow

2 long + 3 short hooks in shadow (inverted reading)

Illustrations

The overall design of Tout-Fait Volume 1 is based on the above, Duchamp's last painting.

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Object information was first published by Rhonda Roland Shearer, Stephen Jay Gould et. al., “Why the Hatrack is and/or is not Readymade,” Tout‑Fait. (2000; updated 2019).


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