Marcel Duchamp

Acting Jul 28, 1887 Oct 2, 1968 (aged 81) Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (like Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to use art to serve the mind. He is considered by many critics to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, and his output influenced the development of post–World War I Western art. He challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and rejected the emerging art market, through subversive anti-art. He famously dubbed a urinal art and named it Fountain.

25 Acting Credits

4 Crew Credits

Marcel Duchamp

Acting

Entr'acte

Witch's Cradle

Uncertain Verification

8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements

Dadascope

Europe After the Rain

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Dada

Paris: The Luminous Years

Merce by Merce by Paik

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible

Hi-Fi

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse

A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp

Grimace

Lafayette, We Come

Screen Test [ST80]: Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable

Marcel Duchamp: A Game of Chess

Duchamp, la baronne et le mystère de l'urinoir

Passionate Pastime

The Secret of Marcel Duchamp

Filming Marcel Duchamp

Crew

Anemic Cinema

8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements

Dadascope

Cinema of the avant-garde 1923 - 1930