It Is What It Is. Or Is It?
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By Bill Arning (Foreword by), Karen Kelly (Editor), Barbara Schroeder (Text by), Alhena Katsof (Editor), Dean Daderko (Text by)
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In 1914, Marcel Duchamp purchased a bottle rack, called it a sculpture, put his name to it and the "readymade" artwork was born. It Is What It Is. Or Is It? considers the legacy of the readymade in contemporary artistic practice as the form approaches its 100th anniversary and attempts to recuperate the radicality of Duchamp's foundational gesture. Taking stock of the readymade's simple materiality and its economy of means, this catalogue includes work by 18 artists working in a variety of ...






















