Marcel Duchamp - 'Art or anti-art?' was the qu...

'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.

Marcel Duchamp

French Artist

Born: Jul 28, 1887

Died: Oct 2, 1968

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