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Radio 4,22 Nov 2016,11 mins

Marcel Duchamp in New York

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In October 1942 the great French conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp helped to put on the first major surrealist exhibition in New York. Carroll Janis' parents were friends of Duchamp. He has been speaking to Louise Hidalgo about his own minor role in that exhibition, and about Duchamp and his art.

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