[
US
/duˈʃɑmp/
]
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)
How To Use Duchamp In A Sentence
- If we miss this point, we miss understanding the multidimensionality of Duchamp and the polyvalent nature of his work.
- A dry skepticism likewise informs her views on the art world, and on the varying fortunes of Duchamp's work and reputation within it.
- Among the likenesses are a photo of Duchamp in blurry profile, and, in mesmerizing frontality, Gerhard Richter's painting of the physicist James Franck, in a work Lawler titles White Gloves.
- In other words, Duchamp contradicted the progressivist and evolutionary assumptions, but viewed the appropriation of other cultures as unproblematic.
- Strains of both Dada and Duchamp course through these found objects rendered into found poems.
- Duchamp spent the one week they lived together studying chess problems, and his bride, in desperate retaliation, got up one night when he was asleep and glued the chess pieces to the board.
- Duchamp was a Frenchman born in 1887 who managed to skip the first world war by feigning invalidity and resettled himself in New York in 1915.
- Its closest predecessors might be mixed-media Dada Duchamp's loose-leafed, shuffleable "Green Box"; or perhaps "I Can Has Cheezburger? NYT > Home Page
- But Duchamp was a magician in the economy of small gestures.
- Does Brancusi come closer to the spiritualism of the Shaker society or to the witticism of Duchamp and Dada?