objet trouve

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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