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Marcel Duchamp by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1968 Promised gift of Barbara and Aaron Levine Hirshhorn, Cathy Carver ... And while Duchamp’s work led to the foundation of conceptual art, ...
Duchamp is best known for his role in developing Dada and conceptual art, particularly through his use of ready-mades—ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as ...
Then Hopps mounted the first Marcel Duchamp retrospective in 1963. ... The other brought the grandfather of conceptual art into sharp focus after decades of benign neglect.
Aaron and Barbara Levine spent 20 years purchasing art by Marcel Duchamp, the pioneering conceptual artist considered a giant of the 20th century. Attracted by Duchamp’s intellectual curiosity ...
Conceptual art was born. The Norton Simon’s “Duchamp to Pop” exhibition, which opens March 4, will explore Duchamp’s seismic influence on Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein ...
Was Marcel Duchamp’s game-changing art, from oils to signed urinals, ... the so-called Father of Conceptual Art who had produced his most famous work back in 1917.
This spring will mark a very important anniversary for art historians, especially those interested in Marcel Duchamp. Around this time 100 years ago, the French artist, widely regarded as one of ...
Marcel Duchamp painted this explosive nude masterpiece. Then he quit. Modern art’s most influential trickster was hatched from the controversy surrounding “Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)” ...
There’s more than one “Duchamp Effect” at work in the Seattle Art Museum this winter. Four concurrent shows take their inspiration, in varied ways, from Marcel Duchamp’s iconic 1917 ...