Marcel Duchamp
French-born artist (1887–1968) associated with Dada and early conceptual art, best known for his readymades (e.g., Fountain) and for challenging traditional definitions of art.
Books
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1. The Writings Of Marcel Duchamp
A compact collection of essays, notes and statements that lay out an iconoclastic rethinking of art — from the theory and practice of ready-mades and the complex meditations on the Large Glass to the roles of chance, humor, language and chess in creative life — arguing for an “anti‑retinal” aesthetic that privileges idea and gesture over traditional craft, and offering provocative theoretical positions that helped shape Dada, Surrealist, and later conceptual art movements.
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