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).
Through this act, Duchamp put forth a new definition of what constitutes a work of art: he implied that it is enough for an artist to deem something âartâ and put it in a publicly accepted venue. Implicit within this gesture was a challenge to the established art institutionsâsuch as museums, exhibiting groups, and galleriesâthat have the power to determine what is and is not considered art. Such intellectual experimentation continued throughout the 20th century in movements such as conceptual art and minimalism.