 Marcel Duchamp's readymades were shocking to the art world during their time of creation. They were a sort of off shoot from the Dada movement, but never had a manifesto for his work. This project was meant to modernize the meaning of the readymade in a manifesto. Duchamp never seemed to necessarily go out of his way to defend the art work, but it really came down to the principle behind it. The artist has the control to determine what is art and what is not. This was pivotal in the abstract art movement. The Readymades created an intense debate between the “establishment” and the more extreme members of the Dada movement. In the present, those questions of reality are very relevant. The manifesto works in short stages and questions all facets of, not only art, but society. That was also an underlying goal of Duchamp. In the end, it is up to artist, opinion giver, and whoever controls the message, truth is now in question always. As our world polarizes, it forces everyone to take a side and debate, and that’s all that was desired in the first place. -Alex Moore 
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