Practice question · True or false
Duchamp's 3 Standard Stoppages was made by dropping three threads a metre long from a height of one metre and keeping the curves they fell into.
Hints
- The threads and the drop height are the same length.
- What was kept was the shape the thread took.
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True
Why
True, and the interesting part is what happened next: the curves were kept as units of measurement. Chance produced the shapes and a decision adopted them as a standard, which is why the work is about the authority of a unit rather than about randomness.
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