Duchamp fountain is not art

The idea of having a jury-free exhibition of contemporary art had become invested with the aspirations of many in the art world for New York to become a dynamic artistic centre that would rival and even outstrip Paris.
After much debate by the board members (most of whom did not know Duchamp had submitted it) about whether the piece was or was not art,was hidden from view during the show.
Whether Mr Mutt made the fountain with his own hands or not has no importance.

The work questioned notions of authenticity when Duchamp first purchased the mass-produced plumbing fixture and signed it “R.
Western art, making the act of designation the sole determinant of art.

After moving from Paris to New York in 1915, Marcel Duchamp became a founding member of the American Society of Independent Artists, a group dedicated to advancing the ideas of new art.
It is not the urinal that is important here folks, it is the idea and the challenge to conventional thinking.

Duchamp knew of the show, since he arrived in the U.