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Marcel Duchamp
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 h…
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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.
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- 2024
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2020
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
Movie Self - Artist (archive footage)
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2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Movie Himself (archive footage)
- 2010
- 2009
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1999
Hi-Fi
Movie
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1997
The Secret of Marcel Duchamp
Movie himself
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1978
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1978
Europe After the Rain
Movie Self
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1978
Merce by Merce by Paik
Movie
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1969
Dada
Movie
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1967
Grimace
Movie
- 1966
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1966
Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp
Movie Himself
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1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Movie Self
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1965
Studio III - Aus Kunst und Wissenschaft
TV show Self
More credits
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1965
Uncertain Verification
Movie (archive footage)
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1963
Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess
Movie Himself
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1962
Dadascope
Movie Self / Voiceover
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1958
Passionate Pastime
Movie
- 1957
- 1956
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1944
Witch's Cradle
Movie The artist
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1926
Anemic Cinema
Movie Director
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1924
Entr'acte
Movie Chess player, black set
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1918
Lafayette, We Come
Movie Wounded man
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