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Prelude to a Broken Arm
Prelude to a Broken Arm (En prévision du bras cassé in French, also called In Advance of the Broken Arm) is a 1915 sculpture by Dada artist Marcel Duchamp that consisted of a regular snow shovel with the title and "from Marcel Duchamp 1915" painted on the handle. An antidote to what he called "retinal art", this sculpture was the second of a series of sculptures that he called "ready-mades", the most famous of which is his 1917 "Fountain
bottle drying rack signed by Duchamp, is considered to be the first "pure" readymade. "Prelude to a Broken Arm" (1915), a snow shovel, also called "In Advance of the Broken Arm", followed soon after. His "Fountain", a urinal signed with the pseudonym "R. Mutt", shocked the art world in 1917. "Fountain" was selected in 2004 as "the most influential artwork of the 20th century" by 500 renowned artists and historians.
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