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found object

NOUN
found art
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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

The title of Andrew Christenberry’s Terzo Piano exhibition comes from a found object that’s mysterious yet intimately familiar to the artist.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2022

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

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