Marcel Duchamp
Noun
Meaning
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)
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Assemblages 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 ".
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.
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.
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.
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.
ISBN 0-8050-5789-7 *Tomkins, Calvin: Duchamp: The World of Marcel Duchamp 1887–, Time Inc., 1966.