Marcel Duchamp

Born: 1887-07-28

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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Entr'acte

as Chess player, black set
Released: 1924-12-04

Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film,...

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Uncertain Verification

as (archive footage)
Released: 1965-04-30

A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.

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Andy Warhol Screen Tests

as Self
Released: 1965-11-28

The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects...

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Witch's Cradle

as The artist
Released: 1944-01-01

The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost...

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8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements

as uncredited
Released: 1957-03-15

8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter,...

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Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible

as Self - Artist (archive footage)
Released: 2020-10-23

A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one...

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Europe After the Rain

as Self
Released: 1978-01-01

Dada came out of the craziness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art...

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Merce by Merce by Paik

as uncredited
Released: 1978-01-01

Merce by Merce by Paik is a two-part tribute to choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Marcel...

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Dadascope

as Self / Voiceover
Released: 1961-01-01

Free-associative images are juxtaposed with disorienting poetry in Richter's late work. The film...

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Paris: The Luminous Years

as uncredited
Released: 2010-12-14

A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the...

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Dada

as uncredited
Released: 1969-10-01

1967 film directed by Greta Deseson about the Dada art movement. Featuring Marcel Duchamp, Man...

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Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp

as Himself
Released: 1966-01-01

Marcel Duchamp alternates between scrutinizing the camera, and smiling and nodding in response...

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Grimace

as uncredited
Released: 1967-01-01

Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred...

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The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse

as Self
Released: 1966-04-20

Edgard Varèse died on 6 November 1965, a few days before the filming of the rehearsal of his...

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Lafayette, We Come

as Wounded man
Released: 1918-11-02

Leroy Trenchard loves Therese Verneuil, and when Leroy enters the army goes to France to fight,...

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Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable

as uncredited
Released: 2009-01-01

Three-part, three-hour documentary with interviews about Marcel Duchamp.

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Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess

as Himself
Released: 1963-01-01

Marcel Duchamp and French director Jean-Marie Drot discuss life, art, and chess.

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