Duchamp

[ dy-shahn ]

/ düˈʃɑ̃ /

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noun

Mar·cel

[mar-sel], /marˈsɛl/, 1887–1968, French painter, in U.S. after 1915 (brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon).

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How to use Duchamp in a sentence

Another room is devoted to his love affair with Marcel Duchamp.
All Hail Richard Hamilton, the Father of British Pop Art|Chloë Ashby|February 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This is not the same thing that artists have been doing since Duchamp hung a urinal on a wall and called it art.
Art on the Tracks|Malcolm Jones|February 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What could come closer to the anti-retinal position of Duchamp than paintings so dark they can barely impinge on our retinas?
Ad Reinhardt's Black (-on-Black) Humor|Blake Gopnik|December 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In making the Black Paintings, Reinhardt may have been as indebted to Duchamp as to Malevich and Barnett Newman.
Ad Reinhardt's Black (-on-Black) Humor|Blake Gopnik|December 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The Daily Pic: In 1913, New Yorker Robert Winthrop Chandler was a successful radical, until he got swamped by Matisse and Duchamp.
Painting, Red in Tooth and Claw|Blake Gopnik|November 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Duchamp, a slighter talent than either Léger or Gleizes, is the Whistler of the movement.
Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning|Willard Huntington Wright
In his series of ready-mades, Marcel Duchamp anticipated much more than a style.
The Civilization of Illiteracy|Mihai Nadin
M. Duchamp has recorded a fatal piscine epizoty amongst tenches (Tinca vulgaris), occurring in the ponds of La Bresse.
Parasites|T. Spencer Cobbold

British Dictionary definitions for Duchamp

Duchamp

/ (French dyʃɑ̃) /

noun

Marcel (marsɛl). 1887–1968, US painter and sculptor, born in France; noted as a leading exponent of Dada. His best-known work is Nude Descending a Staircase (1912)

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