found object

Example Sentences

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“It’s a found object, but price-wise it’s the same as a sculpture,” he said, laughing again.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2023

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

“This found object refracts light, which lends itself to reflection. Its brightness and weight endow it with a presence, but its transparency allows it to disappear.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2021

The idea that you could prepare dinner like a luminary gastronome using a found object took hold and would not let go.

From Salon • Jul. 24, 2019

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