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...Marcel Duchamp’s “readymades.”While Duchamp used industrially produced objects (i.e. a urinal) to break down the boundaries between “art” and ordinary commodities, Fluxus artists took Duchamp’s idea of the “readymade?? one step further, choosing objects that are not mass-produced, but that appear to be: the “multiple.” To accomplish this goal, all Fluxus objects are subtly altered from their industrial counterparts and are personally assembled.It is intention, and not medium, that separates...

Author: By Abigail J. Crutchfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Two Visions, Accidentally Colliding | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

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