Marcel Duchamp ... highest form of conceptual art, a game, and a performance. As much as he disliked art’s merely ‘retinal’ forms, Duchamp started his career in the visual arts, to finish entirely ...

The French artist Marcel Duchamp is widely known for his readymades ... He aimed to depict the mental activity that occurs during a chess game rather than just chess players playing chess.

Duchamp once said: "A chess game is very plastic. You construct it ... (9) All quotations from Duchamp are from "The Works of Marcel Duchamp: A Catalog," Marcel Duchamp (New York: Museum of Modern Art ...

On the wintry streets of Manhattan, the foot traffic to see the greatest art exhibition in America had been discouragingly slow. The 1913 “Armory Show” had opened on February 17. It had begun with a ...