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West 67th Street, reoriented it to a position 90 degrees from its normal position of use, and wrote on it, R.
A slightly cropped version of the photograph was published in theto illustrate an anonymous editorial that defended the urinal in clear – and, in their implications, revolutionary – terms: ‘Mr Mutt’s fountain is not immoral, that is absurd, no more than a bathtub is immoral.
Fountain” was the first ready-made that Duchamp engineered for scandal.

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Duchamp, in a brief response in the avant-garde journal The Blind Man in 1917, summarised them: Some contended it was immoral, vulgar.

Blind Man No. 2, page 4One explanation could go something like this: a readymade is the repurposing and abstracting of a banal object so as to put that object and its relations, uses, connotations, etc.
Marcel Duchamp et ses frères (Paris: Dina Vierny Gallery, 1988).

Beatrice Wood, a lifelong friend of Duchamp and fellow artist, had an eyewitness account of an argument between founders Walter Arensberg and George Bellows:Walter: We cannot refuse it, the entrance fee has been paid.
Urinal readymade signed with joke name; early example of Dada art.
Triple Canopy as part of the public-program seriesat the Museum of Modern Art, the second session of which was facilitated by Sarah Crowner on February 27, 2012.

Like the earlierserved as a mouthpiece for the New York Dada scene.
Fountain is always cited as the source of conceptualism, the Modern art movement that America, rather than Europe, gave the world.
It was submitted to an art show as an act of provocation, but was lost shortly after this.
The Trajectory of Appropriation in Conceptual Art After DuchampOne of the recurring characteristics in much art that is referred to as conceptual art is the consideration of every one of the constituting elements of the artwork as equal components.
The confusion and shock from December 2004, when Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 sculpturewas voted “the most influential work of modern art by five hundred professionals is thus understandable.