Film Screening of Marcel Duchamp: In His Own Words

Marcel Duchamp is one of the most well-known artists of the twentieth century. His work – characterized by its humour and questioning of the boundaries of art – was of relevance and theoretical importance to conceptual artists, though it predated the movement by fifty years. Directed by Lewis Jacobs and featuring an interview with Duchamp prior to his death in 1968, the film explores the three areas: Duchamp’s early period in drawing and painting, his movement into Dadaism and ready-made sculptures (protypically ‘conceptual’ works), and his final major exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.