DUCHAMP, Marcel
(1887–1968)
DUCHAMP, Marcel (28 July 1887–2 October 1968). The grandson of a painter, this Duchamp had three siblings who were also visual artists; but unlike his relatives, he turned his ironic skepticism about art into an extraordinary career built on the smallest amount of work. Indeed, it was his unique and improbable talent to endow, or get others to endow, even his inactivity with esthetic weight. Ostensibly, he went to Paris at sixteen to study art. From 1905 to 1910 he contributed cartoons to…