Duchamp is remembered in art history despite his complete abandonment of art because of the 1960s and Andy Warhol, who reinvented and re-ran all of Duchamp's practices (kinetic art, mobile, aleatoric music, crossdressing, performance) but added the crucial difference: grandiosity, institutional weight, New York fundraising, society balls, and sponsorship.

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what happens in the 1960s is essentially the new art which in every way is a rerun on a classically bigger New York American fleshed out hyped up super up lots more money seen than reinvents or rather just repeats all of the things that we've been see

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The Fall of Western Art & Culture by David StarkeyDavid Starkey Talks
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:42:29 AM

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