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Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp.
The French artist Marcel Duchamp created his first ready-made, Bicycle Wheel, in 1913.12
This work, which consisted of a bicycle wheel mounted on a stool, served as a protest against the excessive importance often placed on traditional works of art. It is classified as an "assisted ready-made" because the artist intervened by combining two distinct objects.1