found object

Example Sentences

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The Readymade—the found object transformed into art—has its roots in the Picasso’s and Braque’s Cubist collages, which incorporated scraps of newspaper, textiles, sheet music and wall paper.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

“It was a found object that we readjusted to our purposes, kind of like the character,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024

The partly curved shape of the semi-wooden upright might seem to emulate a found object, but it was actually generated with geographic-information-system data.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

They fit in well with Philadelphia’s collection, evoking at once Duchamp’s devotion to the found object and Cézanne’s obsession with process.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 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