Sentences with phrase «declared as an art object»

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During this time Duchamp began exhibiting «readymades» (everyday objects found or purchased and declared art) such as a bottle rack, and was active in the Society of Independent Artists.

He came into his own as an artist in the age of Watergate, after painting had been declared dead, the object superfluous and originality a privilege of the past — at a time when just about everything that used to define what great art could be now provoked distrust for the artist and many of his generation.

But not everyone who painted hard - edge chose this route, and not all painters were willing to relinquish their hold on painting and declare their practice in terms of «objecthood» — the notion Michael Fried critically applied to art - as - object in 1966, thereby redefining this approach to art as a type of theater.