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Title
Fountain
(Urinal)
.
Creator
Duchamp, Marcel (French painter, sculptor, and writer, 1887-1968)
Date
1917
Style/Period
Dada
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Ready-mades
Found objects
Urinals (plumbing fixtures)
Plumbing fixtures
Fountains
Men (male humans)
Phallic
Subject
Sculpture
Plumbing fixtures
Fountains
Men
Bodily functions
Urination
Description
"
Duchamp's
most
outrageous
Ready-Made
was a
urinal
that he
submitted
as a
sculpture
to a
New
York
exhibition
mounted
by the
Society
of
Independent
Artists
in
1917
. He
turned
it
upside
down
,
signed
it
'R
.
Mutt'
and
called
it
a
Fountain
. The
work
was
rejected
by the
society
, and
Duchamp
resigned
his
membership
.
[���]
The
Fountain
connects
the
idea
of a
fountain
and a
urinating
male
,
which
in
fact
has been the
subject
of
actual
and
painted
fountains
in
many
works
of
Western
art.
"
Material
Found objects
Urinals (plumbing fixtures)
Plumbing fixtures
Measurements
H: 24 in (61 cm)
Inscription
On front of urinal, lower left: R. MUTT 1917
Work Type
Sculpture
Ready-mades
Found objects
Source
Adams, Laurie Schneider. Art Across Time. 2nd ed. 2 vols. New York: McGraw, 2002. (p.[915], 26.2).
Rights
Reproduced in Adams courtesy Sidney Janis Gallery, New York/ © 2001 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/Estate of Marcel Duchamp.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
437-18.jpg
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