# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:25:23.539Z

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tagline: "French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in France in 1887, Marcel Duchamp spent his last quarter-century in New York, where he became the quiet agent of the avant-garde's American turn. He was the first to elevate a urinal to the status of art, a gesture that cracked open the definition of the medium itself. In a 1957 lecture in Houston, he described the artist as working in "pure intuition," unable to fully account for the work's meaning — a gap he called the art coefficient, "an arithmatic relationship between the unexpressed but intended and the unintentionally expressed." That idea seeded conceptual art and later appropriation practices, influencing figures from Warhol to Levine. He died in 1968, leaving behind a body of work widely considered, alongside Picasso and Braque, as one of the pivots into the post-industrial age.