Programme 4: Objects in Odd Places

Programme Outline

Marcel Duchamp introduced the idea of the readymade – an object that already exists which gains its status as art by the way in which it is used by an artist. Michael Craig-Martin took this idea to its limit: can an artist do anything he likes? Rebecca Horn also uses pre-existing things – in her Concert for Anarchy it is a piano – to make us question the usual order of things.

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