Duchamp's Shovel

A somewhat mystic angle of the found object.

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• mystic
• duchamp
• marcel
• conceptual
• art
• moma
• tourism
• post
• modern
• shovel
• witch
• minnick
• found
• object
• museum

[privateplace]

The question of mimetics is still up for debate; and once the walls of the museum disintegrate there will be a new political system to distinguish art from real life.

[privateplace]

I am just reactivating the work. The Duchamp Shovel has come full circle back to being an everyday object; in fact more so because the work is not even an original. So the work is only a symbol or reference inside the museum; but the real material object is used as a tool in which duchamp's ideas are projected. This is what I am interested in; the life and/or experience from the perspective of the real shovel.

[pishdad]

Just seeing that is interesting on just how a normal object put in the context of art can capture our imaginations just as much as a painting hanging in the next room does; in many cases more than the painting hanging in the next room! Wow.