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Marcel Duchamp

Also known as Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp, Rrose Sélavy, R. Mutt, Rose Sélavy, Marcel Duchamp-Villon, Marsel Dushan, Duxiang, Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp

French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)

AI overview

Marcel Duchamp was a French artist who worked in painting and sculpture and was also an accomplished chess player, living from 1887 to 1968. He is significant because his innovative approaches to art fundamentally challenged and changed how people thought about what art could be.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 28 July 1887
Died: 2 October 1968
Works: 100

Top works

Dokumentation über Marcel Duchamp
Marsel Dushan
Man Ray
Marcel Duchamp : drawings, etchings for the Large Glass, ready-mades
Conspiratorial laughter

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Film & TV

Blainville-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…

Known for

Duchamp, la baronne et le mystère de l'urinoir2024
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible — Self - Artist (archive footage)2020
Paris: The Luminous Years2010
Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable2009
Hi-Fi1999
The Secret of Marcel Duchamp — himself1997
Europe After the Rain — Self1978
Merce by Merce by Paik1978
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma — Self (archive footage)1978
Dada1969

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Blainville-Crevon
Place of death: Neuilly-sur-Seine
Sibling: Suzanne Duchamp
Educated at: École des chartes
Languages spoken: French
Native language: French
Notable work: Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
Participant in: 5th Chess Olympiad
Field of work: art of sculpture
Genre: figurative art
Movement: conceptual art
Sport: chess
Country for sport: France
Image: Marcel Duchamp 01.jpg
Work location: New York City
Residence: Rouen
Said to be same as: Rrose Sélavy

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partner in business or sport: Gianfranco Baruchello
Commons category: Marcel Duchamp
date of birth: 1887-07-28
date of death: 1968-10-01
member of: Society of Independent Artists
Commons Creator page: Marcel Duchamp
topic's main category: Category:Marcel Duchamp
Commons gallery: Marcel Duchamp
name in native language: Marcel Duchamp
place of burial: Cimetière monumental de Rouen
sponsor: Walter Conrad Arensberg
birth name: Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp
unmarried partner: Maria Martins
has works in the collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
archives at: Philadelphia Museum of Art
described at URL: www.nytimes.com/1968/10/03/archives/marcel-duchamp-is-dead-at-81.html
floruit: 1965-01-01

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Marcel Duchamp, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Die verheiratete Frau

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Encyclopedic overview

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp ( UK: /ˈdjuːʃɒ̃/, US: /djuːˈʃɒ̃, djuːˈʃɑːmp/; French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French American artist, chess player, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde in the United States and in New York City, where he spent the last 25 years of his life.

Duchamp was the first artist to elevate a urinal to the status of an art form. For his talk at the American Federation of the Arts in Houston, "On the Creative Act," for which he labeled himself a 'mere artist,' Duchamp said, "Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist, on the one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity...if we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the esthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All his decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out."

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