Artist field note

Marcel Duchamp

The idea becomes the artwork.

Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 by Marcel Duchamp
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Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2

1912

A body is broken into repeated movement, halfway between painting, machine and cinema.

The five in one idea

Duchamp made the definition of art one of art's greatest subjects.