Exploring how Duchamp's art challenges viewers is essential to understanding his creativity and much of the art of the last century.
Duchamp
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.
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