Bicycle Wheel
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For bicycle (the transportation device)wheel, see Bicycle wheel.
Bicycle Wheel is a readymade sculpture by Marcel Duchamp consisting of a bicycle fork with front wheel mounted upside-down on a wooden stool. The original from 1913 was lost, and Duchamp recreated the sculpture in 1951.
"Bicycle Wheel" is said to be the first kinetic sculpture.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Artspeak, by Robert Atkins, 1990, Abbeville Press, ISBN: 1-55859
[edit] External links
- sculpture A kinetic sculpture based on Duchamp's bicycle wheel.
- Bicycle Wheel in the MoMA Online Collection
