Practice question · Multiple choice
Most surviving readymades are later replicas, and this troubles almost nobody. Why not?
Hints
- Ask what the readymade proposes actually makes the work.
- Compare with a painting, where the object's history is part of the work.
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A. If designation constitutes the work, the particular object is nearly incidental
Why
Because the readymade proposes that selection and designation do the work that making used to do. If so, the particular bottle rack is nearly incidental, which would be fatal for an autographic art, where the object's history is part of the work, and is beside the point here.
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