ready-made
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adjective \ˌre-dē-ˈmād\Definition of READY-MADE
1
: made beforehand especially for general sale <ready–made suits>
2
: lacking originality or individuality
3
: readily available <her illness provided a ready–made excuse>
See First Known Use of READY-MADE
15th century
Related to READY-MADE
- Synonyms
- bought, mass-produced, off-the-peg [chiefly British], off-the-rack, off-the-shelf, store, store-bought
- Antonyms
- bespoke (also bespoken), custom, customized, custom-made, tailored, tailor-made
2ready–made
nounDefinition of READY-MADE
1
: something (as a garment) that is ready-made
2
usually ready·made [French ready-made, from English] : a commonplace artifact (as a comb or ice tongs) selected and shown as a work of art
First Known Use of READY-MADE
1882
ready-made
noun (Concise Encyclopedia)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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