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- adjective Alternative spelling of
ready-made . - noun Alternative spelling of
ready-made .
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Examples
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The term readymade art was first used around 1915 and referred to art that was made out of old stuff.
E Is for Environment Ian James Corlett 2011
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The term readymade art was first used around 1915 and referred to art that was made out of old stuff.
E Is for Environment Ian James Corlett 2011
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The readymade was the key that unlocked this 20th-century version of a Pandora's Box - a box that hasn't come close to shutting yet.
Fore, right! < 2010
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The readymade was the key that unlocked this 20th-century version of a Pandora's Box - a box that hasn't come close to shutting yet.
Fore, right! < 2010
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The readymade was the key that unlocked this 20th-century version of a Pandora's Box - a box that hasn't come close to shutting yet.
Fore, right! < 2010
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French women don't romantically just sniff at the perfect pungent melon; to paraphrase Marcel Duchamp's word invention, they also have a knack for buying the right "readymade".
Barbara Probst Solomon: On Julie & Julia, the Fake Movieland France and My Non-Buttery Menu 2009
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Later pieces like Duchamp's "Bicycle Wheel," which consists of a bicycle wheel on top of a wooden stool, were built using what he called "readymade" materials, or mass-produced objects he could purchase.
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Marcel Duchamp's "readymade" objects, Man Ray's experimental photography and Picabia's unconventional collages revolutionized the art world.
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"Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia" features more than 400 works by three of the founding fathers of the DADA art movement during World War I. Marcel Duchamp's iconic "readymade" art, as well as photography by Man Ray and paintings and collages by Francis Picabia are on display.
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My aunt once sent me the "readymade" bhel pack but it all tasted of plastic.
Bhelpuri Mika 2005
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