"Painting is over and done with. Who could do anything better than this propeller? Look, could you do that?"
— Marcel Duchamp

January 1, 1970

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DadaNon-fiction authors from FrancePainters from FranceSculptors from FranceConceptual artists
Original Language: English

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Quote of Duchamp's remark to Brancusi, visiting the Paris Aviation Show of 1919; as quoted in Looking at Dada, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers - The Museum of Modern Art New York, ISBN: 087070-705-1; p. 49