1919 works

thumb|upright=1.4|Marcel Duchamp, 1919, L.H.O.O.Q., published in 391 (magazine)|391, n. 12, March 1920 L.H.O.O.Q. () is a work of art by Marcel Duchamp. First conceived in 1919, the work is one of what Duchamp referred to as readymades, or more specifically a rectified (i.e. altered) ready-made. The readymade involves taking mundane, often utilitarian objects not generally considered to be art and transforming them, by adding to them, changing them, or (as in the case of his work Fountain) simply renaming and reorienting them and placing them in an appropriate setting. In L.H.O.O.Q. the found

Poster by El Lissitzky

a series of posters created in 1919-1921 by Soviet poets and artists who worked for the system of the Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA)