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Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) was a French artist and intellectual whose radical redefinition of art profoundly influenced philosophy and literary theory. He is best known for his "readymades," such as Fountain (1917), which challenged notions of authorship and aesthetic value, and his magnum opus The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even ( The Large Glass ). Duchamp’s work prefigured conceptual art and continues to inform debates on language, perception, and the boundaries of artistic meaning.

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