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★ Artists: Duchamp, Marcel

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Jokes: modern art is full of them. Matthew Collings, This is Modern Art V: Hollow Laughter, Channel 4 1999

 

Marcel Duchamp: iconic, laconic, sardonic, wry, dry, a bit austere, a bit erotic, a cool French guy, never disturbed, always amused, always ready with a sardonic joke.  ibid.  

 

The stream of black off-humour that runs through the art of the 20th century.  ibid.

 

And this is the biggest of all … Fountain is an ordinary old urinal bought in a shop, signed R Mutt 1917 and sent to a big exhibition in New York … The great satan of modern art: Michel Duchamp.  ibid.

 

Irony is at the heart of Duchamp’s output.  ibid.