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VISITING the Dean Gallery this week I came across a bunch of grown men, clustered around an ageing urinal. No, I wasn't performing an audacious and unsavoury raid on the men's loos, just watching the installation team at work on one of the defining artworks of 20th-century art, Marcel Duchamp's notorious Fountain, the piece of sanitary ware passed off as an artwork that was to change the face of art for ever.
This artist's grubby joke has become the stuff of high culture, as visitors to the Dean Gallery this summer will discover. Duchamp's Fountain will be the first thing that they see in Another World, a massive and suitably cluttered exhibition celebrating the gallery's own world-class collection of Dada and Surrealist art, with some prestigious loans thrown in for good measure.See the full content of this document
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The Main Event: Another World
"It looks quite sculptural," laughs Patrick Elliott, senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, "but Duchamp didn't see it as an artwork in that sense. When he firs...
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