Marcel Breuer

Marcel Duchamp’s, ‘Fountain’ {1917}, is a readymade installation which undermines the conventional practices of art making and display, challenging notions and rejecting the classical aesthetic. Marcel Duchamp {1887-1968}, was a French artist who broke down the boundaries between works of art and everyday objects. His mockery for conventional aesthetic standards led him to devise his famous ready-mades, proclaiming an artistic revolution. The term “ready-made” came to label mass- produced everyday

After reading about the controversial artworks, I found that most of these artwork are labeled the way they are because they don’t fit social norm or it is either related to a touchy topic subject matter. In my opinion, I feel that artworks such as Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (1917) and Dana Schutz’s Open Casket (2016) are necessary in our society, because they create new perspective, tell ignored narratives, and etc. The Fountain is readymade urinal that is rotated and signed on the pedestal is “R Mutt”

The study is designed to understand the different social issues related to different characters in the novel To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. It focuses on the Victorian and Modern marriages and highlights how the female characters are different from one another. Similarly, there are a lot of religious doubt, degrading women, and an unclear vision in the novel by one of the characters. However, there are deaths in the novel too. Similarly, it will focus on the two central women in the story.

Although there are significant distinctions between Dadaism and Surrealist movement in their focus of interest in exploring the language and the art, they also happen to have similar concept for groundbreaking the norms and sometimes makes it hard for people to differentiate them. Then, here is an artist who manage to cover and is considered to be one of the pioneers for both Dadaism and Surrealism: Max Ernst. Due to the traumatic army experience during the World War 1, Ernst became highly critical

One of the more notable pieces in the exhibition was one created by Marcel Duchamp, an artist who worked with found objects, which was a prominent characteristic and medium that began New York Dada art. He used objects that were coined as “ready-made”, where he uses an item that people would see in their ordinary lives and

In the book 'The gift', Mauss demonstrates how in all societies, individuals should have the rights and freedom to choose whether they want to give gifts, however, he notices that giving gifts are compulsory in most societies. Mauss speaks about a study that explains how giving gifts is done as a whole rather than between individuals. The gifts were not only materialistic such as possessions and prosperity but through festivities and events such as rituals and dances. These type of gifts resemble

I think that Virginia Woolf uses different angles or non-conventional places because she tries to define the kind of life that British people had at the time and this is helpful to understand the context. During Mrs. Dalloway’s day, the characters move through different places in London, frequenting streets or parks. Thus, location becomes important because it remarks the contrast between the characters' public and private selves along with the social classes where they belong. Furthermore, some

The Power of Giving Marcel Mauss’ ethnology The Gift was originally published in 1925. In this ethnology, Mauss aimed to answer the question “In primitive or archaic types of society what is the principle whereby the gift received has to be repaid? What force is there in the thing given which compels the recipient to make a return?”(1) He successfully answered this through extensive research by comparing cultures in Polynesia, Melanesia, and North West America. He found that the structure of gift

photography, which was a relatively new concept at the time. These photographs turned ordinary things into art by showcasing the abstractness of ordinary things as seen through a lens. One of the most well-known examples of Dada photography is Fountaine by Marcel Duchamp [Fig. 2]. Technology was also a new concept that Dada-creating artists used to their advantage. Film and radio broadcasting were used as mediums, one

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was a French artist, known for his contributions to the Dada movement and for his influence on other artists that followed him. He was born in Blainville-sur-Crevon, a small town in northern France where his father served as a notary. His mother was artistically inclined and thus Duchamp became interested in sketching and painting when he was a teenager. At the age of seventeen, he moved to Paris to study art at the Académie Julian. As a young artist, he was influenced