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Shovel was the first Readymade to be made by Duchamp after his move to the United States. It seems a rather direct result of this relocation; the American snow shovel was something that Duchamp had never seen before, having moved from France where no such thing was in production. In a sense, this proves quite ironic. This core Readymade was supposedly meant to be an everyday, ordinary object. It succeeded in this aspect for its audience, but in actuality it was a very unfamiliar object for the artist himself.