Bicycle Wheel
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| Artist | Marcel Duchamp |
| Year | 1916-17 |
| Location | Original studio photograph. Shown to the left is the 2nd version ofBicycle Wheel,1916-17. The original 1913 version and this 2nd version are lost. There are no known representations of the original 1913Bicycle Wheel and Stool.[1] |
Bicycle Wheelis areadymadefromMarcel Duchampconsisting of a bicycle fork with front wheel mounted upside-down on a wooden stool.
In 1913 at his Paris studio Duchamp mounted thebicycle wheelupside down onto a stool, spinning it occasionally just to watch it. Later he denied that its creation was purposeful, though it has come to be known as the first of hisreadymades."I enjoyed looking at it", he said, "just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in the fireplace". It was not until he began making readymades a few years later in New York that he decidedBicycle Wheelwas also a readymade, and created the second version.[2]
The original version of 1913 and the second version of 1916-17 were both lost. Duchamp recreated yet another version of the sculpture in 1951. Bicycle Wheelis said to be the firstkinetic sculpture.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^tout-fait, TheMarcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal,vol 1, issue 3, Dec. 2000
- ^Tomkins, Calvin:Duchamp: A Biography,Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1996.ISBN0-8050-5789-7
- ^Artspeak, by Robert Atkins, 1990, Abbeville Press,ISBN978-1-55859-127-1
External links
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 Duchamp and the Ready-Mades,Smarthistory |
- Bicycle Wheelin the MoMA Online Collection
- Kinetic Bicycle WheelHommage a Duchamp, Tinguely, et Ganson (videos)
- Flash version of the wheelbyRafaël Rozendaal
- Too close to duchamp's bicycleby Les Liens Invisibles
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