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
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
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
Written by Claire Kiechel and presented by the Civilians, “Paul Swan Is Dead and Gone” is more of a found object than a drama, an exhibit in a museum of unnatural history.
From New York Times • May 2, 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
