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ready-made

/red-ee-meyd/US // ˈrɛd iˈmeɪd //

现成的,成品,现成品,现成

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an everyday manufactured object, as a bottle rack, a snow shovel, a urinal, or a comb, that may by the creative act of selection and designation by an artist attain status as a work of art: associated almost exclusively with the aesthetic activities of Marcel Duchamp during the period 1915 to 1917.

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  • Or maybe it's a kind of remade readymade, and gets its power from using Disney as "serious" contemporary art.

  • It counts as a  readymade, of sorts, because like Duchamp's famous urinal it transplants a functional object into the art world.

  • I think of this piece as a new Duchampian sub-species you might call a "hand-made readymade".

  • They acquire all learning in their mother's womb, and bring it into the world readymade.

  • And that was devoted to what—readymade clothes, ski clothes, and that sort of thing?

  • When a readymade definition, admirably rendered, is at your command, why be at the pains of making a new one for yourself?

  • He spent the time surfing readymade coasters and checking the intranet for engineer availability.

  • But he couldn't get even the cheapest readymade dress-suit for fourteen dollars.