Marcel Duchamp

Known for ActingBorn 1887-07-28Died 1968-10-02Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (like Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to use art to serve the mind. He is considered by many critics to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, and his output influenced the development of post–World War I Western art. He challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and rejected the emerging art market, through subversive anti-art. He famously dubbed a urinal art and named it Fountain.Read more

Movies & web series

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Dada

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Dadascope

Uncertain Verification

Merce by Merce by Paik

Entr'acte

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible

Witch's Cradle

8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements

Anemic Cinema

Paris: The Luminous Years

Hi-Fi

Europe After the Rain

Duchamp, la baronne et le mystère de l'urinoir

Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930

Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable

The Secret of Marcel Duchamp

Grimace

The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse

Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp

Studio III - Aus Kunst und Wissenschaft

Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess

Passionate Pastime

A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp

Lafayette, We Come

Filming Marcel Duchamp