About Marcel Duchamp,1887-1968
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[...]...Duchamp had other targets in mind when selecting a
urinal as a readymade sculpture. He wanted to question the very notion of what
constituted a work of art as decreed by academics and critics, whom he saw as
the self-elected and largely unqualified arbiters of taste. His position was
that if an artist said something was a work of art, having influenced its
context and meaning, then it was a work of art, or at least demanded to be
judged as such. He realised that although this was a fairly simple proposition
to grasp, it would revolutionise art if accepted....
