Found object
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A found object, or found art, is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917; photograph by Alfred Stieglitz
Alphonse Allais, Des souteneurs encore dans la force de l'âge et le ventre dans l'herbe boivent de l'absinthe, carriage curtain, before 1897.
An Oak Tree by Michael Craig-Martin; 1973
Junk art at Oak Street Beach
My Bed
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My Bed is a raw installation by the British artist Tracey Emin. The work consists of her bed with bedroom objects in a disheveled state. First created in 1998, it was exhibited at the Tate Gallery in
Found object
…accepted in the art world as a viable practice, it continues to arouse questioning, as with the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize exhibition of Tracey Emin's My Bed, which consisted literally of a transposition of her unmade and disheveled bed, surrounded by shed clothing and other bedroom detritus, directly from…
Emin My Bed