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.
Entr'acte
(Chess player, black set)
Witch's Cradle
(The artist)
Europe After the Rain
(Self)
Paris: The Luminous Years
Uncertain Verification
((archive footage))
The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
(Self)
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp
Dadascope
(Self / Voiceover)
Dada
Grimace
Lafayette, We Come
(Wounded man)
Merce by Merce by Paik
Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp
(Himself)
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
(Self - Artist (archive footage))
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
(Self)
Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable
Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess
(Himself)
Studio III - Aus Kunst und Wissenschaft
(Self)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
(Self (archive footage))