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found object

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found object
n.
A natural object or an artifact not originally intended as art, found and considered to have aesthetic value. Also called objet trouvé.
[Translation of French objet trouvé : objet, object + trouvé, past participle of trouver, to find.]
found object
n
another name for objet trouvé


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As the creator of the "readymade," the found object that became a work of art simply by virtue of a shift in context, he opened a door to conceptual and performance-based art.
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Cut: Film as Found Object in Contemporary Video," curated by Stefano Basilico, attempts to plot the current value of one strand of the collage aesthetic through a selection of recent video art constructed from preexisting film footage.
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