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Duchamp

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Du·champ  (d-shä, dü), Marcel 1887-1968.
French-born modernist artist and a leader of the Dada movement in New York City who was the first to exhibit commonplace objects as art. His paintings include Nude Descending a Staircase (1912).
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Noun1.Duchamp - 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)
Marcel Duchamp


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DADA" by Rudolf Kuenzli provides an descriptive analysis within an historical context, examining Dada's impact and resonance in the art and culture of this opening decade of the 21st Century from the avant-garde work of such Dada luminaries as Hugo Ball, Marcel Duchamp, many Ray, Francis Picabia, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Hoch, Kurt Schwitter, Max Ernst, Lajos Kassak, and many others.
DADA by Internet Bookwatch
Born in France, Duchamp came to the United States to escape World War I and quickly made a name for himself with Nude Descending a Staircase, his notorious entry in the groundbreaking 1913 New York Armory exhibition.
Say Cheese by Gustafson, Donna / Commonweal
What if the wellspring of art since World War II were to be found not in the mass-made objects Duchamp bought and recontextualized in the teens, but in the crafty way he remade and repackaged them decades later?
"Part Object Part Sculpture": Wexner Center for the arts by Lambert-Beatty, Carrie / Artforum International
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