Duchamp

Du·champ

D0411700 (do͞o-shäN′, dü), Marcel 1887-1968. French-born modernist artist and a leader of the Dada movement in New York City who was the first to exhibit commonplace objects as art. His paintings include Nude Descending a Staircase (1912).

Duchamp

(French dyʃɑ̃) n (Biography) Marcel (marsɛl). 1887–1968, US painter and sculptor, born in France; noted as a leading exponent of Dada. His best-known work is Nude Descending a Staircase (1912)

Du•champ

(düˈʃɑ̃)

n. Marcel, 1887–1968, French painter, in U.S. after 1915.

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Duchamp - French artist who immigrated to the United States; a leader in the dada movement in New York City; was first to exhibit commonplace objects as art (1887-1968)Marcel Duchamp