The Art of Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) was a painter and mixed media artist associated with Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism. Though he avoided any alliances his work is mostly categorized in as Dada, which was a richly subversive art movement that developed at the time of World War I. The name Dada (French for “hobby horse”) was chosen randomly from a French-German dictionary. This movement began in