Duchamp fountain meaning about marcel

He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – created a new thought for that object.
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He took an article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view - created a new thought for that object.

Testing the limits of what constitutes a work of art,staked new grounds.
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.

Independent Artists had rejected a urinal as a submission for their exhibition, Duchamp wrote to his sister telling her that ‘One of my female friends under a masculine pseudonym, Richard Mutt, sent in a porcelain urinal as a sculpture’.
Fountain”, is the most important artwork of the 20th century.

Which suspends meaning while perpetually dispatching you toward interpretation, urging you beyond dogmatism, beyond doctrine, beyond ideology, beyond authority.