French-American artist who revolutionized Western art by introducing the readymade — ordinary manufactured objects designated as art — challenging the very definition of artistic creation and the role of the artist.
The readymade concept, which divorced art from craft and aesthetics, making selection and context the locus of artistic meaning; foundational to all subsequent conceptual art.
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