Definition of Marcel Duchamp

1. Noun. French artist who immigrated to the United States; a leader in the dada movement in New York City; was first to exhibit commonplace objects as art (1887-1968).

Exact synonyms: Duchamp
Generic synonyms: Artist, Creative Person

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Literary usage of Marcel Duchamp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"Kunst en kunstgeschiedenis volgens Marcel Duchamp," Jong Holland 12, 2 (1996): 24-36. ... 19 Marcel Duchamp, "Apropos of 'readymades,'" in Salt Seller ..."

2. Joseph Csáky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture by Edith Balas (1998)
"I found that out from the third brother, Marcel Duchamp.30 There were 28. ... Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), painter, was the inventor of "ready-made" artworks ..."

3. Architectural Bodies by Ad Graafland, Michael Speaks (1996)
"Marcel Duchamp, The Large Glass, upper half: the Bride's Domain, lower half: the Bachelor Apparatus Marcel Duchamp, sketch of the Cemetery of Uniforms and ..."

4. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1914)
"Recent extremists were also on hand, post-impressionists and cubists, Henri Matisse, Francis Picabia, Paul Picasso, Marcel Duchamp. The futurists had been ..."

5. Cubists and Post-impressionism by Arthur Jerome Eddy (1914)
"Gleizes, Metzinger, Leger, and, for the first time, Marcel Duchamp and his brother, the sculptor-architect, Duchamp-Villon, exhibited. ..."

6. The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin (1997)
"Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). Intently against those who were "intoxicated by turpentine," he pursued a "dry art." From the Nu descendant un escalier, ..."

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