Marcel Duchamp
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (like Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to use art to serve the mind. He is considered by many critics to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, and his output influenced the development of post–World War I Western art. He challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and rejected the emerging art market, through subversive anti-art. He famously dubbed a urinal art and named it Fountain.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6844 |
| Birthday | 1887-07-28 |
| Place of Birth | Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France |
| Also Known As | Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp, Rrose Sélavy, |
1924
Entr'acte
6.993/152
Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most dada film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We w...
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Entr'acte
1944
Witch's Cradle
6.7/44
The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several indivi...
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Witch's Cradle
1978
Europe After the Rain
4.25/4
Dada came out of the craziness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize Dada...
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Europe After the Rain
2010
Paris: The Luminous Years
5/1
A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition. The epi...
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Paris: The Luminous Years
1965
Uncertain Verification
6.639/18
A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.
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Uncertain Verification
1966
The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
0/0
Edgard Varèse died on 6 November 1965, a few days before the filming of the rehearsal of his work "Déserts" which he had to attend.
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The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse
1957
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
6.214/14
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Cocteau. Described by Richter...
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8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1956
A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp
0/0
Filmed amidst the Arensberg collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where 35 works by Marcel Duchamp are gathered, this 1956 NBC interview featu...
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A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp
1962
Dadascope
7.667/6
Free-associative images are juxtaposed with disorienting poetry in Richter's late work. The film is visual dynamite: Upside-down and reversed footage,...
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Dadascope
1969
Dada
8/2
1967 film directed by Greta Deseson about the Dada art movement. Featuring Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Hans Richter and Gabrièle Buffet-Picabi...
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Dada
1967
Grimace
0/0
Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the cam...
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Grimace
1918
Lafayette, We Come
0/0
Leroy Trenchard loves Therese Verneuil, and when Leroy enters the army goes to France to fight, Therese follows as a Red Cross nurse. But suspicion ar...
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Lafayette, We Come
1978
Merce by Merce by Paik
6.5/1
Merce by Merce by Paik is a two-part tribute to choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Marcel Duchamp. The first section, “Blue Studio: Five Segmen...
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Merce by Merce by Paik
1966
Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp
0/0
Marcel Duchamp alternates between scrutinizing the camera, and smiling and nodding in response to what seems to be a large crowd of off-screen admirer...
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Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp
2020
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
6/1
A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century, r...
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Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible
1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
8/3
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, a...
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
2009
Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable
0/0
Three-part, three-hour documentary with interviews about Marcel Duchamp.
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Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable
1963
Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess
0/0
Marcel Duchamp and French director Jean-Marie Drot discuss life, art, and chess.
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Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess
2024
Duchamp, la baronne et le mystère de l'urinoir
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Duchamp, la baronne et le mystère de l'urinoir
1958
Passionate Pastime
0/0
Hans Richter's documentary on the game of chess. Narrated by Vincent Price. Outlines the history of chess from ancient times to the present and traces...
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Passionate Pastime
1999
Hi-Fi
5/1
A deep dive into the history of São Paulo's avant-garde poetry movement, starting from fragments of the works of poet Augusto de Campos. A collage of...
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Hi-Fi
1997
The Secret of Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp kept a secret for over 20 years: while the art world had wrongly assumed that one of the 20th century’s most important artists had give...
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The Secret of Marcel Duchamp
Filming Marcel Duchamp
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Filming Marcel Duchamp
2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
6.8/12
Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up a...
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