found object
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
