File:Duchamp Fountaine.jpg

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Summary

Artist



Alternative names	R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy
Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	28 July 1887	2 October 1968
Location of birth/death	Blainville-Crevon	Neuilly-sur-Seine
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

Fountain

Description

Urinal "readymade" signed with joke name; early example of "Dada" art. A paradigmatic example of found-art. Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz. Captions read: "Fountain by R. Mutt, Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, THE EXHIBIT REFUSED BY THE INDEPENDENTS"

Date

1917

Object history

The Blind Man No. 2, page 4. Editors: Henri-Pierre Roche, Beatrice Wood, and Marcel Duchamp. Published in New York, May 1917

Source/Photographer

src Original picture by Stieglitz

Licensing

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File usage

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Art
Dada

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Width	1,188 px
Height	1,629 px
Bits per component	8 8 8
Pixel composition	RGB
Orientation	Normal
Number of components	3
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows
File change date and time	16:35, 10 January 2012
Exif version	2.21
Colour space	Uncalibrated
Unique ID of original document	2A1AD6ED860AA914253736513BF1E171
Date and time of digitizing	08:21, 10 January 2012
Date metadata was last modified	11:35, 10 January 2012
IIM version	22,528

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