FRENCH/AMERICAN ARTIST WHOSE WORK IS MOST OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE DADAIST AND SURREALIST MOVEMENTS. DUCHAMP'S OUTPUT INFLUENCED THE DEVELOPMENT OF POST-WORLD WAR I WESTERN ART. HE ADVISED MODERN ART COLLECTORS, SUCH AS PEGGY GUGGENHEIM AND OTHER PROMINENT FIGURES, THEREBY HELPING TO SHAPE THE TASTES OF WESTERN ART DURING THIS PERIOD. A PLAYFUL MAN, DUCHAMP CHALLENGED CONVENTIONAL THOUGHT ABOUT ARTISTIC PROCESSES AND ART MARKETING, NOT SO MUCH BY WRITING, BUT THROUGH SUBVERSIVE ACTIONS SUCH AS DUBBING A URINAL "ART" AND NAMING IT FOUNTAIN. HE PRODUCED RELATIVELY FEW ARTWORKS, WHILE MOVING QUICKLY THROUGH THE AVANT-GARDE CIRCLES OF HIS TIME. "THE CREATIVE ACT IS NOT PERFORMED BY THE ARTIST ALONE; THE SPECTATOR BRINGS THE WORK IN CONTACT WITH THE EXTERNAL WORLD BY DECIPHERING AND INTERPRETING ITS INNER QUALIFICATIONS AND THUS ADDS HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE CREATIVE ACT.
FRENCH/AMERICAN ARTIST WHOSE WORK IS MOST OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE DADAIST AND SURREALIST MOVEMENTS. DUCHAMP'S OUTPUT INFLUENCED THE DEVELOPMENT OF POST-WORLD WAR I WESTERN ART. HE ADVISED MODERN ART COLLECTORS, SUCH AS PEGGY
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