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Marcel Duchamp ( 1887-07-28 – 1968-10-02 ) was a French artist who became an American citizen in 1955. His work and ideas had considerable influence on the development of post-World War Two Western art. His advice to modern art collectors helped...


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Name: Marcel Duchamp
Birth Date: July 28, 1887
Death Date: 1968
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter, artist

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Biography of Marcel Duchamp
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The French painter Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) asked questions about the importance and nature of art and the artist and challenged conventional ideas of originality. He was a major influence on 20th-century art. Marcel Duchamp was born on July 28,...
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Maverick, innovator, desecrator. These terms and more have been used to describe French artist Marcel Duchamp, a man whose ideas on what does and what does not constitute art have been ultimately more influential than his artwork. Creator of Nude...


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Marcel Duchamp (pronounced [maʀsɛl dyˈʃɑ̃]) (July 28, 1887 – October 2, 1968) was a French artist (he became an American citizen in 1955) whose work and ideas had considerable influence on the development of post-World War II Western art,...


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Art in America
Marcel Duchamp at Achim Moeller.
04/01/2000: 425 words, approx. 1 pages
In an objective exercise celebrating the subject of his recent book of the same title, Duchamp scholar Francis M. Naumann named this rather grand, museum-caliber exhibition of 150 or so items "Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."...
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Art in America
Marcel Duchamp.(Review) (book review)
01/01/2000: 5,556 words, approx. 19 pages
Marcel Duchamp, by Dawn Ades, Neil Cox and David Hopkins, London, Thames and Hudson, 1999; 224 pages, $14.95. D'ailleurs, c'est toujours les autres qui meurent [Besides, it's always the others who die]. While thinly masking a metaphysical abyss, Marcel Duchamp's piercingly ironic farewell,...
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The New York Observer
Surrealism USA: Shocking Images Haven't Aged Well
3/13/2005: 644 words, approx. 2 pages
In the history of modern art, nothing dates more rapidly than audacity. Every fresh shock marks a new beginning for a rising generation eager to overtake established elders. The art that challenges orthodoxy in one generation is embraced as a classic by the next and...
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The New York Observer
Zac Posen's Metaphysical Fashion: Outfits Within Outfits
12/12/2007: 418 words, approx. 1 pages
Last night, at the Neue Galerie's 6th annual Winter Gala, Zac Posen talked to us about art. While a number of art-world folks are abuzz over the current, exploding art market, the 27-year old fashion phenom said he's not impressed with the way things are...
 


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