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The 35 pages that link to Readymade, each with the reason it gives.

• DadaBroader topic: Marcel Duchamp’s readymades made the choice to designate an object an anti-art gesture.

• Conceptual artNarrower topic: The readymade shows how an artistic decision can matter more than fabrication.

• Appropriation (art)Broader topic: Marcel Duchamp’s readymades made selection itself a form of artistic reuse.

• SculptureCompared with: Readymades challenge the expectation that sculpture must be shaped by hand.

• Modern artBroader topic: Readymades shifted artistic emphasis from skilled fabrication toward selection and context.

• CollageCompared with: Like collage, the readymade brought pre-existing material into art, but often without assembling fragments.

• Institutional critiqueRelated: The readymade makes institutional recognition central to the question of what counts as art.

• Installation artRelated: Readymades show how installation can transform objects through placement and context.

• Marcel DuchampNarrower topic: Duchamp developed the readymade as a way to make artistic choice, rather than fabrication, central.

• Still lifeCompared with: Readymades question artistic arrangement by presenting objects with minimal transformation.

• AssemblageRelated: Like assemblage, it makes an object's prior identity and context part of its artistic force.

• Avant-gardeBroader topic: Marcel Duchamp’s readymades challenged assumptions about artistic skill and the status of art objects.

• Found objectRelated: The readymade is the clearest method for making a found object art through designation.

• Man RayRelated: Man Ray adapted the readymade idea in sculptural objects such as Gift and Cadeau.

• Young British ArtistsRelated: YBA artists extended the challenge of treating found objects as artworks.

• Black SquareCompared with: Like Duchamp’s readymades, it challenged inherited definitions of artistic value, by a different means.

• European avant-gardeBroader topic: Marcel Duchamp’s readymades made artistic selection itself a challenge to established standards.

• Neo-DadaBroader topic: Neo-Dada artists renewed Duchamp’s use of ordinary objects as art.

• Remix cultureRelated: The readymade made selection and reframing, rather than fabrication, an artistic act.

• ArtBroader topic: Readymades challenge the idea that art must be made by hand.

• Assemblage (art)Compared with: Readymades raise the status of objects that assemblage may instead combine into a larger work.

• Damien HirstNarrower topic: Hirst's use of manufactured materials raises questions about where artistic authorship resides.

• Modern sculptureBroader topic: It challenged the assumption that sculpture must be shaped by an artist's hand.

• Jeff KoonsCompared with: Koons stages manufactured imagery through elaborate fabrication rather than simply selecting an object.

• Jasper JohnsRelated: Johns’s flags and targets are not ordinary readymades, but they similarly unsettle the boundary between image and thing.

• Joseph KosuthRelated: The readymade offers a different route from his language-based challenge to art’s definition.

• Bird in SpaceCompared with: The customs officials mistook the abstract bronze for a manufactured object, raising a question unlike the readymade’s deliberate use of one.

• Nouveau réalismeRelated: The readymade supplied a precedent for treating ordinary objects as artistic choices.

• Félix González-TorresRelated: His use of ordinary materials extends the challenge to traditional artistic objecthood.

• Mono-haCompared with: Mono-ha also used existing objects, but typically stressed their relations with other materials and space.

• Piero ManzoniRelated: Manzoni’s use of ordinary objects and bodily materials extends this challenge to artistic making.

• Pierre RestanyRelated: The readymade offered a precedent for the movement’s use of found objects.

• Richard PrinceRelated: Prince’s reuse of found images extends the readymade’s challenge to artistic originality.

• Arthur DantoBroader topic: The readymade makes Danto’s distinction between object and artwork especially clear.

• The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, EvenNarrower topic: The work’s manufactured forms connect its imagery to Duchamp’s broader challenge to artistic making.