Marcel duchamp urinal meaning not art

United States less than two years prior to the creation ofcultural movement, in New York City.
Fountain was not made by a plumber but by the force of an imagination; and of imagination it has been said, “All men are shocked by it and some overthrown by it.
Fountain” was the first ready-made that Duchamp engineered for scandal.

Evidence that Marcel Duchamp may have stolen his most famous work, Fountain, from a woman poet has been in the public domain for many years.
Society of 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’.

Though not really well known during his lifetime, Duchamp shocked art-goers with his take on what art should be and who defined art.
Fountain is a 1917 work by Marcel Duchamp.

Marcel Duchamp as a bicycle wheel mounted on a stool and a urinal signed ‘R.
I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty.
Each argument has as its conclusion that Fountainis not an artwork; thus not exhibitable.

Fountain’ Was Subversive—but Subverting What?