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Looking for an artist or artwork in our collection? Search our online collection database. Marcel Duchamp turned to ordinary manufactured objects in order to distance himself from traditional definitions of an artwork, the artist, and the creative act. The container is a painted metal birdcage with vertical bars clipped to lower its height. Inside are simulation sugar cubes, which are actually cubes of marble procured from hardware stores as a means for removing built-up lime scale inside teakettles.

Duchamp liked the amusing contradiction between light sugar and heavy marble. Disclaimer Images We do our best to use images that are open source. Accuracy Our writing can be punchy but we do our level best to ensure the material is accurate.

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Rose Cannon. What do you get when you cross sugar cubes, a cuttlefish bone, a thermometer, and a birdcage? Seigel, Jerrold E. Dislike 0 0 Like. Comments 0. Image Url URL. Sign up. Duchamp first used this spelling later in when he signed a photograph taken by Man Ray which showed him posing as a woman. Display caption To make this work, Duchamp filled a small wire birdcage with blocks of white marble cut to the same dimensions as sugar cubes.

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