Sentences with phrase «bicycle wheel atop»

Tiravanija's restoration of a powerful museum's traditional role could stand as further irony, like the copy of Marcel Duchamp's bicycle wheel atop the plywood.

Marcel Duchamp is usually credited as inventing the readymade, but the essential idea of taking something preexisting and elevating it into art did exist before he created his first one (a bicycle wheel atop a kitchen stool) in 1913: in Pablo Picasso's Still Life With Chair Caning from 1912, for example, the artist collaged a piece of woven chair backing onto a two - dimensional canvas, and before that Degas clothed his Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (1881) in a real tutu.

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Imagine that the bicycle wheels above are cardboard disks that spin atop a cardboard background.

Any bicycle part that appears in contemporary art will call to mind Marcel Duchamp's iconic «readymade» of a bicycle wheel pointlessly fastened atop a four - legged stool.