Bottle Rack
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Bottle Rack is a pioneering readymade sculpture by Marcel Duchamp that helped redefine the boundaries of art by presenting an ordinary mass-produced object as an artwork.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bottle Rack canonical | 2 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
conceptual artwork
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readymade sculpture ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Bottle Dryer
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Hérisson ⓘ |
| artHistoricalStatus |
canonical Duchamp readymade
ⓘ
iconic work of modern art ⓘ |
| artist | Marcel Duchamp ⓘ |
| artisticConcept |
elevation of ordinary object to artwork by artist’s choice
ⓘ
emphasis on idea over craftsmanship ⓘ |
| artMovement | Conceptual art ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
anti-art
ⓘ
avant-garde art ⓘ |
| category | 20th-century sculpture ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Marcel Duchamp ⓘ |
| curatorialTheme | readymades and objecthood ⓘ |
| displayContext |
art museum
ⓘ
gallery ⓘ |
| fabrication | industrial mass production ⓘ |
| functionOfOriginalObject | drying bottles ⓘ |
| genre | readymade ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of readymade tradition
ⓘ
later conceptual artists ⓘ |
| influencedBy | emerging Dada ideas ⓘ |
| inscription | none ⓘ |
| languageOfAlternateName | French ⓘ |
| madeFrom | mass-produced bottle-drying rack ⓘ |
| materialUsed | metal ⓘ |
| movement | Dada ⓘ |
| originalLanguageTitle | French ⓘ |
| period | early 20th century ⓘ |
| philosophicalTheme |
critique of aesthetic taste
ⓘ
questioning authorship and originality ⓘ |
| productionMethod | appropriation of manufactured object ⓘ |
| reception |
controversial at time of introduction
ⓘ
highly influential in contemporary art theory ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Bicycle Wheel
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Fountain ⓘ In Advance of the Broken Arm ⓘ |
| signedByArtist | no ⓘ |
| significance |
challenged traditional definitions of art
ⓘ
early example of Duchamp readymade ⓘ helped redefine boundaries between art and everyday objects ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | utilitarian household object ⓘ |
| usesFoundObject | true ⓘ |
| yearOfCreation | 1914 ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.