📑 How Marcel Duchamp took the piss | 1843

Annotated How Marcel Duchamp took the piss (1843)
A little magazine called the Blind Man, co-edited by Duchamp, ignited a debate still running today. “Whether Mr Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He chose it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – and created a new thought for the object.”  âť§

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