What Was the First Readymade

Duchamp created the first ready-made, Bicycle Wheel (1913), which consisted of a wheel mounted on a stool, as a protest against the excessive importance attached to works of art. This work was technically a “ready-made assisted,” because the artist intervened by combining two objects.

When was the readymade invented?

A term coined by Marcel Duchamp in 1916 to describe prefabricated, often mass-produced objects isolated from their intended use and elevated to the status of art by the artist choosing and designating them as such.

What was Duchamp first readymade?

Bicycle wheel mounted by its fork on a painted wooden stool. He fashioned it to amuse himself by spinning it, “… like watching a fire… It was a pleasant gadget, pleasant for the movement it gave.” It is considered the first readymade, even though he did not have the idea for readymades until two years later.