Matt Giles Museum Project Duchamp Stripped Bare, Even Marcel Duchamp was born on July 28, 1887; thus, began the life of one of the most famous of the Cubists, Dadaists, and ready-made artists (Paz, 181). His work was important because of his love of new and different—taking art in a new direction each time he created. “I force myself to contradict myself so as to avoid conforming to my own taste” (duchamps-children.fsnet). This explains his attempts …showed first 75 words of 2068 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2068 total…would never fail him and could never be derided or rejected—chess. Lebel quotes H.P. Roche’s adjudgement of what Duchamp’s legacy seems to say: Seek, find, be yourself. Don’t follow things others are running after. Don’t follow the herd. Don’t repeat, in spite of the “encore’s.” Don’t swallow up bits of other people; it digests badly and gets noticed. Have fun. If not, you’ll bore us.