What is Art? Marcel Duchamp: Great Art Explained

Alternatively, every video has a "thanks" button under it- I appreciate it! In 1917 Marcel Duchamp bought a mass-produced porcelain urinal from a plumbing suppliers, laid it on its side, signed it, and then put it in an exhibition and called it art. The Fountain, as it was named, has cast a long...

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Read Deeper: Art Through the Ages

  1. The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
  2. Civilisation by Kenneth Clark - View on Amazon
  3. The Book of Kells by Bernard Meehan - View on Amazon
  4. Gothic Art by Michael Camille - View on Amazon
  5. Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari - View on Amazon
  6. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (4/5) - View on Amazon
  7. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King - View on Amazon
  8. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
  9. Caravaggio by Andrew Graham-Dixon - View on Amazon
  10. Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama - View on Amazon
  11. Vermeer's Hat by Timothy Brook - View on Amazon
  12. The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama - View on Amazon
  13. Turner by Franny Moyle - View on Amazon
  14. Goya by Robert Hughes - View on Amazon
  15. The Romantic Movement by Alain De Botton - View on Amazon
  16. Delacroix by Barthélémy Jobert - View on Amazon
  17. The Judgment of Paris by Ross King - View on Amazon
  18. Van Gogh by Steven Naifeh - View on Amazon
  19. Dear Theo by Vincent van Gogh - View on Amazon
  20. The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dalí - View on Amazon
  21. Dali by Robert Descharnes - View on Amazon
  22. Surrealism by Fiona Bradley - View on Amazon
  23. The Persistence of Memory by Meredith Etherington-Smith - View on Amazon
  24. Magritte by Jacques Meuris - View on Amazon

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