There are two acts that share the name Marcel Duchamp:

1) Marcel Duchamp (July 28, 1887 – October 2, 1968) was a French artist (he became an American citizen in 1955) whose work and ideas had considerable influence on the development of post-World War II Western art, and whose advice to modern art collectors helped shape the tastes of the Western art world.

While he is most often associated with the Dada and Surrealism movements, his participation in Surrealism was largely behind the scenes, and after being involved in New York Dada, he barely participated in Paris Dada.

Thousands of books and articles attempt to interpret Duchamp's artwork and philosophy, but in interviews and his writing, Duchamp only added to the mystery. The interpretations interested him as creations of their own, and as reflections of the interpreter.

A playful man, Duchamp prodded thought about artistic processes and art marketing, not so much with words, but with actions such as dubbing a urinal "art" and naming it Fountain. He produced relatively few artworks as he quickly moved through the avant-garde rhythms of his time.

2) Banda de Crust Punk originaria de Chile y formada en 2001, sus temáticas se caracterizan en general por el apoyo a las clases obreras, rechazo al Estado y las representaciones de este, proclamación de las libertades individuales, rechazo a cualquier tipo de discriminación, rechazo de la dictadura en Chile y las repercusiones de esta. Su nombre surge como una simpatía del dadaísmo que emerge en Marcel Duchamp, y sobre todo, con los movimientos sociales, artísticos y contra-culturales de tipo rupturista. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.