Duchamp Fountain facts
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Duchamp's Fountain...in 1917 Marcel Duchamp purchased, signed & submitted an ordinary, mass produced urinal in a New York art exhibition. It was subsequently voted the most influential artwork of the 20th century and a replica sold for $1.7 million.
Brian Eno was the first of only six people to ever urinate in Marcel Duchamp's 1917 artwork ”Fountain" (which is a urinal)
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Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain", a readymade art piece in the early 20th century. In concieving the art piece, Duchamp bought a urinal, reoriented and rotated it around by 90 degrees, and scribbled a fake name "R. Mutt" at the bottom left.
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In 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a urinal to the American Society of Independent Artists for exhibition and named it "Fountain". To our knowledge, this was the first time in history when art was intentionally not beautiful and the birth of conceptual art.
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Duchamp's "Fountain" was actually the idea of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.
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In 2000, Cai Yuan and Jian Jun Xi pissed on Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" in a performance titled "Two Artists Piss on Duchamp’s Urinal" to celebrate his contribution to modern art.
