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Marcel Duchamp

1887 - 1968 (age 81) • Acting

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.

Known For

Entr'acte

70%

Chess player, black set

1924

Anemic Cinema

62%

Director

1926

Witch's Cradle

67%

The artist

1944

Uncertain Verification

66%

(archive footage)

1965

8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements

62%
1957

Dadascope

77%

Self / Voiceover

1962

Europe After the Rain

43%

Self

1978

Dada

80%
1969

Duchamp, la baronne et le mystère de l'urinoir

2024

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible

60%

Self - Artist (archive footage)

2020

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

68%

Himself (archive footage)

2011

Paris: The Luminous Years

50%
2010

Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable

2009

Hi-Fi

50%
1999

The Secret of Marcel Duchamp

himself

1997

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

90%

Self (archive footage)

1978

Merce by Merce by Paik

65%
1978

Europe After the Rain

43%

Self

1978

Dada

80%
1969

Grimace

1967

The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse

Self

1966

Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp

Himself

1966

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

80%

Self

1965

Studio III - Aus Kunst und Wissenschaft

Self

1965

Uncertain Verification

66%

(archive footage)

1965

Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess

Himself

1963

Dadascope

77%

Self / Voiceover

1962

Dadascope

77%

Poem

1962

Passionate Pastime

1958

8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements

62%
1957

8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements

62%

Co-Director

1957

A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp

1956

Witch's Cradle

67%

The artist

1944

Anemic Cinema

62%

Director

1926

Anemic Cinema

62%

Idea

1926

Anemic Cinema

62%

Writer

1926

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