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World Service,08 Nov 1999,4 mins

The Father of Conceptual Art

My Century

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French artist Marcel Duchamp questioned 19th Century ideas about art and aesthetic beauty in extraordinary ways. Art has never been the same again. Calvin Tomkins was a friend of Duchamp and talks here about his memories of the man.

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