Everything is Coming Up Roses: Marcel Duchamp’s Readymade Perfume Bottle

Mad Perfumista

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. – Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was an artist known for his work within the 20th century avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism, the progenitor of the «readymade» or found object turned into art, and widely acknowledged as the father of Conceptual art.  Insistent on criticizing academic art as defined by fine arts schools, galleries, and museums at the beginning of the 20th century, Duchamp produced a body of work that was incisive and serious in its rebellion against good taste while utilizing puns and off-color humor to convey his point of view.  In 1917, Duchamp caused a scandal with Fountain, a urinal that he signed…

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