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Marcel Duchamp “I don’t care about the word art…”

"Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French/American artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art during this period.

A playful man, Duchamp challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and art marketing, not so much by writing, but through subversive actions such as dubbing a urinal art and naming it Fountain. He produced relatively few artworks, while moving quickly through the avant-garde circles of his time". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp)

Marcel Duchamp interviewed by Joan Bakewell. Originally produced as television broadcast by the BBC TV for the program 'Late Night Line Up' on 5 June 1968, on the occasion of Arturo Schwarz's lecture at the ICA, London. source: tout-fait. The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal Perpetual (2004).