found object
Example Sentences
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Near a subway station entrance on a busy traffic island, the gesture transformed a private function accommodated by Duchamp’s found object into a desperate social act, which Hammons titled “Pissed Off.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023
At a time when the U.S. president is facing impeachment — and the -gate suffix seems ubiquitous — the stage for the exhibition is a found object in its own right.
From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2019
It is not the only found object she has used in collages.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2018
Johns said he liked it because it allowed him to treat the design of the painting as a given, a found object, and then to do various painterly things to it.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 3, 2018
Most viewers will recall a key sculpture in the series that is accidentally bumped off its plinth and broken: The work is, unsurprisingly, called “Untitled,” and consists of exactly one found object, a brick.
From Salon • Jul. 23, 2017
