I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
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Birth: | 28th July, 1887 |
Death: | 2nd October, 1968 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Artist, Librarian |
Marcel Duchamp was a French American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Dadaism. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.
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