It was the French artist Marcel Duchamp who opened the door to the idea that anything can be a work of art, from a bicycle wheel to a bottle rack and a urinal. However, his famous work L.H.O.O.Q ...
Duchamp, who challenged conventional thought about artistic processes famously rejected the art market as it emerged in its contemporary form. He dubbed a urinal art and named it Fountain and his ...
“Some people may consider this work Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ of the 21st century,” art adviser Ralph DeLuca previously told The Post, referencing the urinal auctioned at Sotheby’s for $1.7 ...
I know that Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made sculpture Fountain was contrived in 1917, but I think his effort to turn the banal ...
From the signed urinal to "Nude Descending a Staircase", Marcel Duchamp continues to influence contemporary art. A new exhibition at the Barbican Arts Centre, London, shows the extent of the his ...
A century ago, many works of groundbreaking modern art were considered so distasteful ... One of the most famous examples is Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain," an inverted urinal simply signed "R.