Marcel Duchamp created a new art form in which the artist makes nothing, but merely labels an object as art. He called this art form:

A. the Machine Aesthetic.
B. ready-mades.
C. automatism.
D. pointillism.
E. instantaneous art.


B
Duchamp's ready-made Fountain raised philosophical questions about the context of art.

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