Duchamp vs Oppenhiem
... Perhaps no work is more singularly identified with this transformation than Fountain, created by Marcel Duchamp in 1917. ... The name ready-made was coined by Marcel Duchamp, and is defined as “an everyday object that is selected and designated as art. ... One of the main differences between this piece and other works of his is that Duchamp signed this piece with the pseudonym R. ... Duchamp got the urinal for the original Fountain directly from J. ... The Society of Independent Artists was putting on an exhibition that was open to any artist that paid the six-dollar entry fee, so Duchamp anonymously submitted Fountain. ... The hanging committee refused to exhibit the work as a sculpture and Duchamp argued the case for R.