Marcel Duchamp, Mona Lisa parody " LHOOQ " ( 1919 ), post card reproduction with added moustache, goatee and title in pencil ( 19. 7 x 12. 4 cm )

It actually means " Corporation ", but Duchamp thought it a fine name and later while the legal paper work was being written up the " Inc ." was added, making its English translation, with its delightful dadaistic redundance, " Corporation, Inc .".

In 1919, Marcel Duchamp, one of the most influential modern artists, created L. H. O. O. Q., a Mona Lisa parody made by adorning a cheap reproduction with a moustache and a goatee, as well as adding the rude inscription, when read out loud in French sounds like " Elle a chaud au cul " literally translated: " she has a hot ass ".

Most people did not consider the depiction of a Brillo Box or a store-bought urinal to be art until Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp ( respectively ) placed them in the context of art ( i. e., the art gallery ), which then provided the association of these objects with the associations that define art.

Alternatives to traditional editing were also the folly of early surrealist and dada filmmakers such as Luis Buñuel ( director of the 1929 Un Chien Andalou ) and René Clair ( director of 1924's Entr ' acte which starred famous dada artists Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray ).

Duchamp can be seen as a precursor to conceptual art, other famous examples being John Cage's 4 ' 33 ", which is four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence, and Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning.

The Surrealists wanted to create an exhibition which in itself would be a creative act and called on Marcel Duchamp to do so.

It mirrored the attitudes of the " artists of Passy ", which included Picabia and the Duchamp brothers, to whom sections of it were read prior to publication.

However, the linking of basic geometric forms with inherent beauty and ease of industrial application — which had been prefigured by Marcel Duchamp from 1914 — was left to the founders of Purism, Amédée Ozenfant and Charles-Édouard Jeanneret ( better known as Le Corbusier ,) who exhibited paintings together in Paris and published Après le cubisme in 1918.

While living in New York, Richter directed two feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy ( 1947 ) and 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements ( 1957 ) in collaboration with Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and others, which was partially filmed on the lawn of his summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.

Carrie, which takes place over ten years later but was written eight years earlier, features a reference to a Teddy Duchamp, but he is clearly not the same person as the Teddy of the novella.

* The title is also used by the College of ' Pataphysics as Transcendent Satrap for certain of its members, among which were counted such peoples as Marcel Duchamp, Jean Baudrillard and the Marx brothers.

Duchamp Opera House, which dates to the mid-19th century, hosted many theatrical companies in its lifetime and has recently been completely restored.

In 1916, he exhibited Orphist-like paintings, several of which had religious titles that also included his Portrait of Marcel Duchamp and his much discussed Les Forces MÈcaniques de l ' amour Mouvement, created by using found objects.

Also in 1943, Deren began making a film with Marcel Duchamp, The Witches ' Cradle, which was never completed.

Precursors to conceptual art include the work of Duchamp, John Cage's 4 ' 33 ", which is four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence and Rauschenberg's Erased De Kooning Drawing.

In this spirit of advancement, in 1949 CSFA Director Douglas MacAgy organized an international conference, The Western Roundtable on Modern Art, which included Marcel Duchamp, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Gregory Bateson.

She was a key figure in the group that formed around Others magazine, which also included Man Ray, William Carlos Williams, Marcel Duchamp, and Marianne Moore.

She assisted with the organization of the " Exposition inteRnatiOnale du Surréalisme " ( EROS ) which ran from December 15, 1959 – February 15, 1960 in Paris, with the catalogue for the exhibition being designed by Parent and Duchamp.

In 1959 Spoerri founded Editions MAT (" Multiplication d ' art Transformable "), a venture which produced and sold copies of three dimensional constructed artworks by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Dieter Roth, Jean Tinguely and Victor Vasarely.

The post at the ICA also afforded Hamilton the time to further his research on Duchamp, which resulted in the 1960 publication of a typographic version of Duchamp's Green Box, which comprised Duchamp's original notes for the design and construction of his famous work The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, also known as The Large Glass.

While Marcel Duchamp caused uproar with his Fountain, which was not accepted as " art " at the time of its release due to Duchamp's attempt to mask the urinals true form, Nevelson took found objects and by spray painting them she disguised them of their actual use or meaning.

In the fall of that year, though the intermediary of Apollinaire, he met Pablo Picasso for the first time and joined the Puteaux Group which held meetings in the studio of Jacques Villon ( Gaston Duchamp ) and also included Villon's brothers, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, amongst others.

::" Much influenced by Marcel Duchamp he is an essentially interrogative artist, constantly questioning artistic conventions and the assumptions on which we base our aesthetic judgements.

At the bottom left of the painting Duchamp placed as title, " NU DESCENDANT UN ESCALIER " in block letters, which may or may not be related to the work, as the question of whether the figure represents a human body remains open ; the figure viewers infer gives little clue to its age, individuality, character, or sex ( though the work's title has the masculine gender ).

Marcel Duchamp perfected the concept when he made a series of " readymades "— completely unaltered everyday objects selected by Duchamp and designated as art — several years later.

However, there are accounts of Walter Arensberg and Joseph Stella being with Duchamp when he purchased the original Fountain at J. L. Mott Iron Works.

Cage later asked Duchamp: " How is it that you used chance operations when I was just being born?

Its nickname, Petit Paris (" Little Paris "), dates from the era when St. Martinville was known as a cultural mecca with good hotels and a French Theater, the Duchamp Opera House ( founded in 1830 ), that featured the best operas and witty comedies.

As the legend goes, when meeting Marcel Duchamp Ginsberg kissed his shoe and Corso cut off his tie.

Marcel Duchamp, whom she had known since the early 1920s, when she lived in Paris with her first husband Laurence Vail, had introduced Guggenheim to the art world ; it was through him that she met many artists during her frequent visits to Paris.

Duchamp's relevance and theoretical importance for future " conceptualists " was later acknowledged by US artist Joseph Kosuth in his 1969 essay, " Art after Philosophy ," when he wrote: " All art ( after Duchamp ) is conceptual ( in nature ) because art only exists conceptually.

For example, according to McEvilly, postmodernism begins with the realization that one no longer believes in the myth of progress, and that Duchamp sensed this in 1914 when he changed his modernist practice to a postmodernist one, " abjuring aesthetic delectation, transcendent ambition, and tour de force demonstrations of formal agility in favor of aesthetic indifference, acknowledgement of the ordinary world, and the found object or readymade.

These occurred when the piece was being moved from its first exhibition, and after effecting the repair, Duchamp decided he admired the cracks: an element of chance that enhanced what he had done intentionally, following the flow of energy in the work's composition.

The term is associated with the Dada movement and is generally accepted as attributable to Marcel Duchamp pre-World War I, when he began to use found objects as art.

: I have in mind the occasion when Marcel Duchamp got hold of some friends to show them a cage which seemed to have no birds in it, but to be half-full of lumps of sugar.

After a boy from a neighbouring town named Ray Brower went missing and is presumed dead, Gordie Lachance and his three friends, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp and Vern Tessio set out to find his body after telling their parents they will be camping out.

So he and Ace visit a colony of artists on the barren dust world of Duchamp 331 to find out more.

In commenting on the title Duchamp pointed out that there is a " dissociation gap " between sneezing at will and sneezing against one's will.

In the 1940s, View Editions, an associated publishing house, came out with the first monograph on Marcel Duchamp and the first book translations of André Breton's poems.

* 1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter ( d. 1968 )

* September 11 – Suzanne Duchamp, French painter ( b. 1889 )

* October 2 – Marcel Duchamp, French artist ( b. 1887 )

* September 11 – Suzanne Duchamp, French painter ( d. 1963 )

Marcel Duchamp ( 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968 ; ) was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements.

In 1934 Duchamp joined the French Secret Service and between 1935 and 1938 was the Chief of Security at the French Embassy in Berlin.

The other main influence, Marcel Duchamp, was a French artist who had originally been active within Dada, and was by now resident in New York.

Among others, the artist Marcel Duchamp took part as a member of the French team.

The French artist Marcel Duchamp composed two pieces between 1913 and 1915 based on chance operations.

* The French artist Marcel Duchamp and the noted American poet William Carlos Williams also spent time there.

To distinguish himself from his siblings, Gaston Duchamp adopted the pseudonym of Jacques Villon as a tribute to the French medieval poet François Villon.

The French artist Marcel Duchamp paved the way for the conceptualists, providing them with examples of prototypically conceptual works — the readymades, for instance.

He discovered Yves Klein and the Nouveau Réalisme in the 1950s, but he became quickly interested in the French dada artist Marcel Duchamp, the music of John Cage and joined the Fluxus artistic movement in the 1960s.

In 1922 he published his first book, a collection of surrealistic aphorisms, with the title Rrose Sélavy ( based upon the name ( pseudonym ) of the popular French artist Marcel Duchamp ).

* Niki de Saint Phalle French artist, was invited or came to visit Marcel Duchamp

* French Window: looking at the contemporary art through the Marcel Duchamp prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2011

Henri-Pierre Roché was also a friend of Francis Picabia, Constantin Brâncuşi, and Marcel Duchamp, with whom he traveled to New York city in 1916 following his discharge from the French army.

Aphorism 13 paid homage to Marcel Duchamp: " Rrose Sélavy connaît bien le marchand du sel " English language | English: " Rrose Sélavy knows the merchant of salt well "; in French language | French the final words sound like Mar-champ Du-cel -- Duchamp's compiled notes are titled ' Salt Seller '.

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 ( French: Nu descendant un escalier n ° 2 ) is a 1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp.

The Marcel Duchamp Prize ( in French: Prix Marcel Duchamp ) is an annual award given to a young artist.