Facts about Marcel Duchamp and Dada

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   Marcel Duchamp's concept of the 'readymade,' ordinary manufactured objects designated as art, became one of Dada's most influential philosophical contributions to modern art.

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   New York Dada, a short-lived branch of the movement, centered largely on Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray during the early 1920s.

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   The Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, founded in 1916, was the birthplace of Dada, a movement whose spirit of absurdist provocation deeply influenced Marcel Duchamp's practice.

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   Although associated with Dada, Marcel Duchamp kept a characteristic intellectual distance from the movement, describing himself as an anti-artist rather than a committed member of any group.

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   Duchamp's readymades, including the famous urinal titled Fountain submitted in 1917, became central touchstones for the Dada movement's rejection of traditional art values.

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