Duchamp
Americannoun
noun
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His older brothers—also artists—had been dispatched by the high priests of Cubism to inform Duchamp that his submission to the Salon des Indépendants wouldn’t make the cut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
“Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2” made Duchamp an American celebrity, as the journalist John Strausbaugh details in “Duchamp Takes New York.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The question is: Do you buy what Duchamp and the curators are selling?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
The point of no return was 1915, when Duchamp, altogether rejecting art’s traditional role as aesthetic creation—metamorphosis—brought that snow shovel and hung it from his studio ceiling as “In Advance of the Broken Arm.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
When the French artist Marcel Duchamp drew a mustache on a copy of the Mona Lisa, he made the most famous parody in art history.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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