Drake, AdrienneLinford, SarahGrieco, Catherine2024-10-182024-10-182023Grieco, Catherine. "Joseph Kosuth’s Adaptation of Marcel Duchamp’s Readymade". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2023.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/540Thesis (B.A. in Art History)--John Cabot University, Spring 2023.This thesis examines the readymade in its entirety. Starting with a brief historical overview, I focus on the readymade’s impact on the art world in beginning in the 1910s and through the 1970s. Using two examples, Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917) and Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs (1965), as pertinent case studies, I discuss the readymade’s transformation and give plausible theories. Both artworks aim to answer the question, “what is art” but their responses are polarizing. This thesis discusses Marcel Duchamp's call to revolutionize the art world, Joseph Kosuth’s answer, and their respective techniques, approach, and overall contribution. Although this is not the first piece of literature that compares these two artists, it is the first to question and problematize One and Three Chairs’ association with being a readymade.42 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968Joseph KosuthImitation in artModern artThesis