Practice question · Multiple choice
Why did Duchamp’s Fountain prove so consequential?
Hints
- Duchamp made nothing. What did he do instead?
- Note that the committee hid it rather than awarding it.
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D. It relocated the art from the making to the choosing
Why
He selected a factory object, signed it "R. Mutt", and the selection was the work. What counts, who decides, does skill matter, is the institution part of the piece, the whole following century is folded into that urinal, which the committee promptly hid.
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