Bicycle Wheel Art Marcel Duchamp

A pair is often called a wheelset especially in the context of ready built off the shelf performance oriented wheels.

Bicycle wheel art marcel duchamp. 3 a third version was produced for sidney and harriet janis in 1951 and is now in the museum of modern art new york. Particularly in his readymades duchamp placed unprecedented emphasis on the artistic concept as paramount over craftsmanship or aesthetics. In 1913 recalled marcel duchamp i had the happy idea to fasten a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool and watch it turn 1 the result bicycle wheel is the first of duchamp s readymades objects sometimes manufactured or mass produced selected by the artist and designated as art. Though bicycle wheel predates duchamp s use of the word readymade a term he coined after moving from paris to new york in 1915 it is the earliest example of this class of groundbreaking artworks.

In 1913 i had the happy idea to. In 1913 duchamp created bicycle wheel which is considered the first of his famous readymades minimally altered objects that are elevated to the status of art simply through the designation of the artist. In 1913 he produced the bicycle wheel which was simply an ordinary bicycle wheel in 1914 pharmacy consisted of a commercial print of a winter landscape to which he added two small figures reminiscent of pharmacists bottles. The moderna museet stockholm holds the fourth version made by ulf linde and p o.

It was nearly 40 years before the ready mades were seen as more than read more. Marcel duchamp described its creation by stating. Marcel duchamp s bicycle wheel was first made in 1913 and was considered to be one of his first readymades an object or objects found by duchamp and labelled as art. Bicycle wheel 1916 17 marcel duchamp sculpture.

The sidney and harriet janis collection 2016 artists rights society ars new york adagp paris estate of marcel. The bicycle wheel book. Most of duchamp s readymades were individual objects that he repositioned or signed and called. I would eventually discover that bicycle wheel was the first in a series of related objects that duchamp classified as readymades these were items he seemingly selected at random signed and declared works of art thereby changing the definition of art and irrevocably altering the future course of modern and contemporary art.

Like most of duchamp s existing readymades moma s bicycle wheel is a later version of an earlier creation made for a 1951 exhibition at the sidney janis gallery in new york. Thus when the original bicycle wheel was lost after duchamp left for new york in 1915 he made a second version now lost the following year. Bicycle wheel is made up of a metal bicycle wheel mounted on a painted wooden stool. Bicycle wheel by marcel duchamp 1887 1968 was created in 1913 by mounting a bicycle wheel and fork on a stool painted white.

A bicycle wheel is a wheel most commonly a wire wheel designed for a bicycle.