The French artist Marcel Duchamp is widely known for his readymades ... exhibited by Alfred Barr during the Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism exhibition. At the time, it was owned by Raymond ...

Man Ray was a visual artist born in America who spent most of his life in Paris. He contributed to both Dada and Surrealism.

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 ...