Marcel Duchamp

Genius. Anti-artist. Charlatan. Impostor! Since 1914 Marcel Duchamp has been called all of these.

No artist of the 20th century has aroused more passion and controversy, nor exerted a greater influence on art, the very nature of which Duchamp challenged and redefined as concept rather than product by questioning its traditionally privileged optical nature.

Dawn Ades, Neil Cox, David Hopkins