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means An ordinary, often discarded item that an artist selects and presents as art, with little or no alteration, because of its form, meaning, or context.

from Translates the French term objet trouvé, coined in the early 1900s as artists like Duchamp began exhibiting manufactured or discarded objects — a bicycle wheel, a urinal — as art. The phrase itself wasn't a joke; it was a philosophical dare, insisting that the artist's act of choosing and framing could be as meaningful as the act of making.