Sentences with phrase «porcelain urinal»

It's been almost a hundred years since Marcel Duchamp signed «R. Mutt» on the side of a porcelain urinal.

As he writes: «One of my female friends who had adopted the pseudonym Richard Mutt sent me a porcelain urinal as a sculpture.»

The idea was fully developed by the experimental French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968), who coined the term «readymades» shortly after the famous Armory Show (Spring 1913), to describe his signature style of «found object», as exemplified by his work entitled Fountain (1917), a standard porcelain urinal inscribed «R. Mutt 1917», which Duchamp submitted to the New York Society of Independent Artists exhibition (1917).

NEW YORK — There are diverse references to art in the office of Philippe Vergne, the man who will be the next director of Los Angeles» Museum of Contemporary Art: a framed photo of artist Walter de Maria's «The Lightning Field,» a glossy picture of a work by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn, and a porcelain toilet plunger, signed «R. Mutt,» a reference to Marcel Duchamp's 1917 «Fountain» — a porcelain urinal.

Duchamp submitted the work, simply consisting of a porcelain urinal that's been placed on its back on a pedestal and signed «R. Mutt» by the artist, for an show at the Society of Independent Artists in 1917.

One hundred years ago, Dada artist Marcel Duchamp forever changed the nature of art when he submitted Fountain, a porcelain urinal signed R. Mutt for the Society of Independent Artists exhibition in New York (April 9, 1917).

One hundred years ago, Dada artist Marcel Duchamp forever changed the nature of art by anonymously submitting Fountain in 1917, a porcelain urinal signed «R. Mutt» as an artwork to the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York.

He often works with found objects and materials drawn from stereotypical references to African American culture such as chicken wings, dreadlock clippings and Night Train liquor bottles and the outdoors have served as his exhibition space where he has sold snow balls in the street and installed real porcelain urinals on trees.

Laboratorio (Embudo), 2012, gelatin silver prints on a pair of porcelain urinals, 12 x 12 inches (diameter each), Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

The looming piece stands alongside the rest of the Capote's highly symbolic and allusive show, containing many years of works including a gilt bronze hammer and sickle, cast bronze hands spelling out «Freedom» in sign language, and silver prints laid in porcelain urinals.

Not exact matches

I also sell urinals with pictures of your mothers on the cross laser etched in the porcelain for 229.95 plus shipping.

The lockers themselves are a dusty rose, the showers have pink shower curtains, and even the urinals are of pink porcelain.

The hotel is housed in what was once two separate buildings: The Clare Pub and the Carlton United Breweries administration building, and there is plenty of evidence of its past preserved in common areas and rooms — for example, one suite sports massive porcelain mens» urinals used when the space was a boardroom.

Duchamp's Fountain, his upturned urinal signed R Mutt on the porcelain, may not seem to demand much in the way of an act of looking, but the initial shock of its appearance in an art gallery has profoundly affected the art of the past 80 - odd years.