Bicycle Wheel Art Moma

New york 1951 third version after lost original of 1913 37 metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool 51 x 25 x 16 1 2 129 5 x 63 5 x 41 9 cm.

Bicycle wheel art moma. Bicycle wheel is a readymade a stool supporting an upside down bicycle wheel that the artist has recontextualised as well as displaced its original function. Bicycle wheels are typically designed to fit into the frame and fork via dropouts and hold bicycle tires. The museum of modern art revised 2004 originally published 1999 p. New york 1951 third version after lost original of 1913.

A pair is often called a wheelset especially in the context of ready built off the shelf performance oriented wheels. The museum of modern art renovation and expansion designed by diller scofidio renfro in collaboration with gensler. Close up of the wheel in marcel duchamp s bicycle wheel 1951 third version after lost original of 1913 metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool. New york 1951 third version after lost original of 1913 511.

Bicycle wheel has been described as the beginning of conceptual art in which the art is about an idea rather than the materials or value of the work. Photography by iwan baan courtesy of moma. 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. A bicycle wheel is a wheel most commonly a wire wheel designed for a bicycle.

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. These two actions by duchamp were his guidelines for transforming an industrial mass produced object into a work of art such as his piece bicycle wheel. Hear a variety of perspectives on works of art. Publication excerpt from the museum of modern art moma highlights new york.

Many of marcel duchamp s readymade artworks were thrown away because they were not recognized 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. Bicycle wheel is duchamp s first readymade a class of artworks that raised fundamental questions about artmaking and in fact about art s very definition. Photography by iwan baan courtesy of moma.

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