Historical Examples. 1  When he heard the drums he flared up like a spark in the tinder. 2  It's yersel' knows the tinder feet that's on me since ever I 've bin in this counthry. 3  You see I have the tinder now safely secured in my tinder-box. 4  I want one of these sparks, if I can persuade it to do so, to fall on my tinder. The Story of a Tinder-box Charles Meymott Tidy Here is the flint, the tinder being contained in this little box.
The signature is reproduced in black paint. Fountain has been seen as a quintessential example, along with Duchampâs Bottle Rack 1914, of what he called a â readymade â, an ordinary manufactured object designated by the artist as a work of art (and, in Duchampâs case, interpreted in some way).
Add to that artists' sustained fascination with machines (painting machines, for one, along the lines of the contraption described by Alfred Jarry in Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien [1898], itself a fairly organic invention); the meditations on waste, human or otherwise, by the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, and Piero Manzoni; and the recent wave of abject art (in which we might classify Delvoye's own turd-motif mosaics made in the early '90s)--and Cloaca ...