Noun
French artist who immigrated to the United States; a leader in the dada movement in New York City; was first to exhibit commonplace objects as art (1887-1968)
Source: WordNetAssemblages could be seen in the round or could be hung on a wall. citation Readymades Marcel Duchamp began to view the manufactured objects of his collection as objects of art, which he called " readymades ". Source: Internet
Kinetic works Marcel Duchamp, 1918, A regarder d'un oeil, de près, pendant presque une heure, To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour. Source: Internet
Most people did not consider the depiction of a store-bought urinal or Brillo Box to be art until Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol (respectively) placed them in the context of art (i. Source: Internet
Not so coincidentally, Ireland's patron saint was Marcel Duchamp, an artist prankster similarly fond of the uncanny; a large photograph of him is propped against a wall. Source: Internet
In choosing "an ordinary article of life" and creating "a new thought for that object" Duchamp invited onlookers to view Fountain as a sculpture. citation Marcel Duchamp famously gave up "art" in favor of chess. Source: Internet
ISBN 0-8050-5789-7 *Tomkins, Calvin: Duchamp: The World of Marcel Duchamp 1887–, Time Inc., 1966. Source: Internet