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Marcel Duchamp
French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)
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Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (UK: , US: ; French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French American artist, chess player, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde in the United States and in New York City, where he spent the last 25 years of his life.
Duchamp was the first artist to elevate a toilet to the status of an art form. For a talk at the American Federation of the Arts in Houston, for which he labeled himself a 'mere artist,' he said, "Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist, on the one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity...if we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the esthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it.
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