A century before democracy was tested by social media gone rogue, Hausmann understood the dark side of technology.
Dada
Though Picabia borrows from the popular machine aesthetic, nothing about his apparatus is functional.
Francis Picabia, Ideal
The avant-garde reached new heights by looking to “low” culture; after all, the whole thing started with a urinal!
Introduction to Dada
As the European public grew increasingly hard to scandalize, Duchamp crossed the Atlantic to stir up more trouble.
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No ...
Love, sex, science, broken glass, a coffee grinder, a bride from another dimension—this one really has it all.
Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare ...
Duchamp’s wife spent hours gluing prints of her husband’s work onto cardboard for this “portable retrospective.”
Marcel Duchamp, Boite-en-valise, Series F
This is one of the most important objects of twentieth-century Euro-American visual culture. But… is it art?
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain
For this snow shovel, the road from the garage to the gallery was paved with the ruins of art as we knew it.
Art as concept: Marcel Duchamp, In Advance ...
This chaotic montage features the “Where’s Waldo?” of artistic signatures, but its subject matter is no joke.