Avant Garde artist Duchamp

Question

How did Duchamp reject Art as an Institution

Answer 1

He rejected art as an institution by entering a urinal for the the Armory Art exhibition in 1917.

Answer 2

He changed the space the artist works in

- by changing the media, ready mades, assemblages, painted glass panels.

- by changing the space the artists works in to the pracis of life where the artist find the readymade, the objets teouves etc.

Answer 3

- by introducing the idea that the artist and the spectator are both needed for the creation of the work of art

- by using alterego he played with the idea of artist as work of art

- by acting as a Shaman - a channel through which the Dadaist spirit was manifested.

Answer 4

Yes - except that instead of destroying Art as an Insitution he merely changed it. The kind of art Duchamp made has been commodified,

His last work - L'etant Donee- picutres- may have been an ironic comment on this. A painting hidden behind a peephole which is hidden behind a wooden door in a museum - not in New York or Paris but in Philidelphia.

Answer 5

Compared to other Avant Garde artist he wasn't particularly political. He changed the world socially by brining the praxis of life - in the form of the readymades- into the art gallery.