Marcel Duchamp(1887-1968)
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Famous Dada artist who shocked the world when he submitted a urinal
signed "R.Mutt" to the 1917 first exhibition of the American Society of
Independent Artists at the Armory Show in New York. It was reported in
a press account that (Duchamp under pseudonym) J.C. Mutt of
Philadelphia, little known in artistic circles, heard that payment of
five dollars would permit him to send to the exhibition a work of art
of any description or degree of excellence he might see fit. He
complied by shipping from Quaker City a familiar article of bathroom
furniture by a well known firm of that town. By the same mail went a
five dollar bill. And a urinal became a "work of art". Duchamp appears
in the film Entr'acte (1924) playing an absurd game of chess (his favorite, by
the way) against Man Ray.
