Marcel Duchamp, the outstandingly influential ... it Fountain and his subversive invention of the ready-made is not without echoes in the art of Kantor. Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the ...

In 1919 Marcel Duchamp penciled a mustache and goatee ... pop and installation art. But Dada would die out in less than a decade and has not had the kind of major museum retrospective it deserves ...

The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade. One can regard them as experiments in art, or mock works of ...

From Marcel Duchamp to Jackson Pollock, artists were smashing their way out of the frame, knocking art off its pedestal. The absurd, ad hoc sculptures of dada appropriated everyday, mundane objects.