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DUCHAMP Marcel
(1887-1968)
"I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products."
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| Marcel DUCHAMP, a few dates |
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| 1887 |
born in Blainville-Crevon (France) on July 28 1887 |
| 1913 |
first "ready made" objects that he choose for their esthetical neutrality |
| 1914 |
goes to New York and meets Man Ray, Stieglitz and Picabia |
| 1917 |
presents the Fountain, a urinal signed R. Mutt which will be refused at the Society of Independant Artists |
| 1921 |
creates Rrose Sélavy, or Rose Sélavy, one of Duchamp's pseudonyms which sounds like the French phrase "Eros, c'est la vie" |
| 1923 |
presents one of his major works: Nude Descending a Staircase |
| 1942 |
meets André Breton in New York where they set up the exhibition First papers of surrealism |
| 1955 |
become an American citizen |
| 1959 |
is discovered by the new artistic generation like Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns or Andy warhol |
| 1968 |
died on October 2, 1968 |
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