ready-made
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read·y-made
or read·y·made (rĕd'ē-mād')
adj.
adj.
- Already made, prepared, or available: ready-made clothes.
- Handy or expedient, especially because of familiarity, frequent use, or preplanning: a raft of ready-made excuses.
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ready-made
Everyday object selected and designated as art. The name was coined by Marcel Duchamp, whose first ready-mades included a snow shovel that he picked up on a snowy day in New York, and a wheel mounted on a stool (1913). They represented a protest against the excessive importance attached to works of art. Duchamp's anti-aesthetic gestures made him one of the leading Dadaists of his day, and his ready-made concept, though widely regarded for decades as an insult to art, was adapted by such later artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and Jasper Johns.
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Ready-Made
Term applied from 1915 to a commonplace prefabricated object isolated from its functional context and elevated to the status of art by the mere act of an artist's selection. Unlike most types of OBJET TROUV?, of which it can be considered a sub-category, it is generally a product of modern mass production, and it tends to be presented on its own without mediation. In its strictest sense it is applied exclusively to works produced by MARCEL DUCHAMP, who borrowed the term from the clothing industry while living in New York, and especially to works dating from 1913 to 1921. Duchamp envisaged the ready-made as the product of an aesthetically provocative act, one that denied the importance of taste and which questioned the meaning of art itself. According to Duchamp, the artist's choice of a ready-made should be governed not by the beauty of the object but by his indifference towards it; to these ends it could be selected by chance methods, for example by a predetermined weight or at a predetermined time.
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ready-made
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Definition: ready-to-wear
Antonyms: bespoke, tailor-made
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categories related to 'readymade'
- Fashion, Trim, and Sewing - readymade: any garment made in advance for sale, not custom tailored
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Ready-made
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - færdiglavet, færdig-
n. - præfabrikeret produkt
Nederlands (Dutch)
kant-en-klaar
Français (French)
adj. - de confection, prêt-à-porter, tout fait
n. - (Art) objet trouvé, vêtements de confection
Deutsch (German)
adj. - vorgefertigt, Konfektions...
n. - Konfektions...
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - έτοιμος, προκατασκευασμένος, όχι επί παραγγελία
Italiano (Italian)
confezionato
Português (Portuguese)
adj. - confeccionado
Русский (Russian)
готовый к употреблению
Español (Spanish)
adj. - confeccionado, hecho, de medida
n. - algo (generalmente ropa) hecho a la medida
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - konfektionssydd
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
现成的, 平凡的, 做好的, 现成物品
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 現成的, 平凡的, 做好的
n. - 現成物品
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 기성의, 빌어 온
n. - 기성품
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 既製の, 受け売りの, 出来合の
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - מוכן, מוכן לפי תקן מראש, לא לפי מדידה, לא בהזמנה (בגד), לא מקורי, סטנדרטי
n. - בגדים מוכנים
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