The Greatest Books of All Time on Readymades
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Readymades is a playful, experimental book category built on appropriation and recontextualization: texts and objects assembled from found, discarded, or preexisting material and presented as a finished book-art work. Inspired by Duchamp’s idea of the readymade, these volumes can be collages of newspaper clippings, annotated archival documents, facsimiles, erased or redacted texts, conceptual prompts, altered mass-market books, or curated sequences that force new meanings out of everyday language and ephemera. Readymades foreground materiality and authorship—the editor/artist’s selection and framing become the creative act—while challenging readers to interpret absence, repetition, and context. They appeal to those interested in remix, archival play, visual-textual hybridity, and critical questions about originality and value.
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