Marcel Duchamp
First state of Top Inscription or Milky Way with The Nine Shots (supplementary suite, plate 5) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1
1965, published 1967
Etching from the supplementary suite of 17 etchings (9 with aquatint) from an illustrated book
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Marcel Duchamp
American, born France. 1887–1968 188 works onlineWhen Marcel Duchamp created his most famous work—the industrially produced urinal Fountain —it was largely ignored. Fountain was the high point of Duchamp’s campaign to dismantle and expand the boundaries of what constitutes a work of art; it had begun four years earlier, when he asked, “Can one make works that are not ‘of art’?
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