The use of the readymade (everyday object selected and designated as art) has been important within art over the last 100 years. Marcel Duchamp, a pioneer within the discipline, created the first "ready made" artwork- Bicycle Wheel 1913, which consisted of a wheel mounted on a stool, as a protest against the excessive importance attached to works of art. It was technically a "ready made assisted", because it was two items combined.
The best known readymade, also by Duchamp is the urinal- Fountain 1917. By selecting mass-produced, commonplace objects, Duchamp attempted to destroy the notion of the uniqueness of the art object. The result was a new, controversial definition of art as an intellectual rather than a material process. [1]
This process became ever popular right through the 20th and now 21st Century, seeing Young British Artists incorporating "found" objects into their works. The most famous from this century, perhaps Hirst's The Physical Impossiblity of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, or Emin's Anyone I Have Ever Slept With.
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