Duchamps' urinal named world's most influential piece of modern art
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Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, created in 1917, has been named the world's most influential piece of modern art by a jury of 500 artists, curators, critics and dealers commissioned by the sponsor of the Turner prize, Gordon's.
According to art expert Simon Wilson, "the Duchampian notion that art can be made of anything has finally taken off. And not only about formal qualities, but about the 'edginess' of using a urinal and thus challenging bourgeois art." Top 10 in The Guardian. |
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Fabulous news!