found object
Example Sentences
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The Readymade—the found object transformed into art—has its roots in the Picasso’s and Braque’s Cubist collages, which incorporated scraps of newspaper, textiles, sheet music and wall paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
“It’s a found object, but price-wise it’s the same as a sculpture,” he said, laughing again.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Near a subway station entrance on a busy traffic island, the gesture transformed a private function accommodated by Duchamp’s found object into a desperate social act, which Hammons titled “Pissed Off.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023
The partly curved shape of the semi-wooden upright might seem to emulate a found object, but it was actually generated with geographic-information-system data.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
The idea that you could prepare dinner like a luminary gastronome using a found object took hold and would not let go.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2019
