Week #13

This week we have been reading the book that Professor Tucker wrote himself.  It is call Derridada.  In class however, we have been talking about ready-made art.  We have discussed this before in class.  We also watched a video on Marcel Duchamp.  Professor Tucker talks a lot about Duchamp in his book.  The movie basically describes some of Duchamp's works and their significance.  Duchamp tried to bend the rules of art and create a new definition of it.  Duchamp would take everyday, useful objects and turned them into art by signing his name on it and naming the object. This lead us to discuss ready-made art.  On Friday, about half of the class brought in their own ready-made art in exchange for 100's on the rest of their quizzes.  Some peoples ready-made's were pretty interesting.  One guy made a chair out of a cardboard box.  I wasn't sure that was actually a ready-made but it made an interesting point.  The rest of the art was seemed relevant and most people seemed to think a lot about what their art meant.