During his career Duchamp produced various collections of facsimiles of his hand-written notes, demonstrating his interest in the nuance of ink on paper.
During his career Duchamp produced various collections of facsimiles of his hand-written notes, demonstrating his interest in the nuance of ink on paper. In a 1916 letter to his sister Suzanne, the artist first uses the word “readymade” to designate the conceptual transformation of everyday objects into art. He emphasizes the term with diagonally placed quotation marks and encircles “crise,” suggesting the threat to tradition his innovation represented.