Fountain and Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp: What was that all about?

Introduction This essay will try to formulate a coherent statement about the connection between two influential ‘conceptual event-objects’ created by the French avant-garde painter and conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). The two items under discussion are Fountain (1917; Fig. 1) and Large Glass (1913-1925; Fig. 2). Maybe to call them provisionally ‘conceptual event-objects’ might be … Continue reading “Fountain and Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp: What was that all about?”