Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Found object. A found object (a calque from the French objet trouvé ), or found art, [1] [2] [3] is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function. [4] Pablo Picasso first publicly utilized the idea when he ...
Duchamp only made a total of 13 readymades over a period of time of 30 years. [4] He felt that he could only avoid the trap of his own taste by limiting output, though he was aware of the contradiction of avoiding taste, yet also selecting an object. Taste, he felt, whether "good" or "bad", was the "enemy of art". [5]
L.H.O.O.Q. L.H.O.O.Q. ( French pronunciation: [ɛl aʃ o o ky]) is a work of art by Marcel Duchamp. First conceived in 1919, the work is one of what Duchamp referred to as readymades, or more specifically a rectified ready-made. [2] The readymade involves taking mundane, often utilitarian objects not generally considered to be art and ...
Thesaurus. A thesaurus ( pl.: thesauri or thesauruses ), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
Ready-to-wear. Ready-to-wear ( RTW ) – also called prêt-à-porter, or off-the-rack or off-the-peg in casual use – is the term for garments sold in finished condition in standardized sizes, as distinct from made-to-measure or bespoke clothing tailored to a particular person's frame. In other words, it is a piece of clothing that was mass ...
Commercial-off-the-shelf or commercially available off-the-shelf ( COTS) products are packaged or canned (ready-made) hardware or software, which are adapted aftermarket to the needs of the purchasing organization, rather than the commissioning of custom-made, or bespoke, solutions. A related term, Mil-COTS, refers to COTS products for use by ...
Baking mixes. Arrowhead Mills. Atkins Nutritionals. Aunt Jemima (rebranded to Pearl Milling Company) Betty Crocker [8] Bisquick [9] Bob's Red Mill. Boulder Brands. Cherrybrook Kitchen.
A retort pouch or retortable pouch is a type of food packaging made from a laminate of flexible plastic and metal foils. It allows the sterile packaging of a wide variety of food and drink handled by aseptic processing and is used as an alternative to traditional industrial canning methods. Retort pouches are used in field rations, space food ...