Duchamp fountain meaning now

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.
The toilets we now see as banal were tinged with allure ….
Like much of what Duchamp did and said, the meaning of R.

Duchamp was a board member of the Society of Independent Artists and submitted the piece under the name R.
FountainDuchamp had two strategic objectives.

The Henry and Emil to whom Marcel is now compared are almost surely Henry James, whom Stein regarded as her model, and again Emil(e) Zola, France’s great naturalistic writer.
Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1963—the show that inaugurated Duchamp’s rediscovery as the most influential artist of the twentieth century (and the grandfather of conceptual art).

Now you are probably wondering: If Dada was a reaction to the horror of war, then why are these Zürich rooms filled with delicate cubist collages, goofy masks, abstract needlepoints (great upholstery concepts!