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DAY 314 | PROFILES IN ART |
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
READYMADE ARTIST
“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.” —Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp was conceivably one of the most inimitable artists of the 20th century. His groundbreaking philosophies left a unique imprint on numerous Avant-Garde circles and continue to inspire today—even though he produced very few works in his lifetime.
Duchamp was born in Blainville, France, to a bourgeois family whose ...
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