objet trouvé
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Today, Fassbender is both Magneto in the ‘‘X-Men’’ series and a darling of critics and intellectuals; he’s somehow a pinup and an objet trouvé and also playing Steve Jobs.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2015
And, for the most part, Téchiné—whose natural mode is melodrama, as in such films as “French Provincial” and “My Favorite Season”—gives the objet trouvé just enough polish to showcase its natural allure.
From The New Yorker ● May 15, 2015
The show consists of a single room-filling objet trouvé titled “Diamond Crossing.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2013
"Or a chopped piece of guitar that was chucked in there as some kind of Duchampian objet trouvé."
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2011
Viewed at a certain level, "Casual" is a work of objet trouve, constructed from a mélange of currently popular TV tropes down to Silver Lake as the new Brooklyn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2015
Duchamp was an adherent to objet trouve, the art movement formed on the theory that ordinary objects can take on an artistic significance, if they are given one by the artist.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2012
