marcel duchamp

Matt Giles Museum Project Duchamp Stripped Bare, Even Marcel Duchamp was born on July 28, 1887; thus, began the life of one of the most famous of the Cubists, Dadaists, and ready-made artists (Paz, 181). His work was important because of his love of new and different—taking art in a new direction each time he created. “I force myself to contradict myself so as to avoid conforming to my own taste” (duchamps-children.fsnet). This explains his attempts …

…would never fail him and could never be derided or rejected—chess. Lebel quotes H.P. Roche’s adjudgement of what Duchamp’s legacy seems to say: Seek, find, be yourself. Don’t follow things others are running after. Don’t follow the herd. Don’t repeat, in spite of the “encore’s.” Don’t swallow up bits of other people; it digests badly and gets noticed. Have fun. If not, you’ll bore us.