Marcel Duchamp, 1915
In Advance of the Broken Arm
Some jokes are worth telling over and over. In 1915 Marcel Duchamp walked into a hardware store, purchased a snow shovel, signed it, dated it, called it In Advance of the Broken Arm and hung it from his studio ceiling. Art! This intentional perversion of artistic creation is called a ‘readymade'—claiming a found object as an artwork. read more
