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Which everyday object became Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 work Fountain?
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The everyday object that French artist Marcel Duchamp used for his 1917 work Fountain was a porcelain urinal.12
Duchamp presented this piece as a ready-made—a mass-produced, commonplace object designated as art—to challenge conventional aesthetic standards and the traditional status of the art object. By signing the work with the pseudonym "R. Mutt" and submitting it to the Society of Independent Artists, he created a deliberately provocative gesture that emphasized the artist's intellectual process over material craftsmanship.3124