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In 2004, a urinal was voted the most influential work ever in modern art. Famed artist and provocateur Marcel Duchamp cl | dG1fWjFqM3B2UlpoV28
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00:00In 2004, Fountain was named the most influential modern artwork of all time.
00:10This is the most important work of art of the 20th century.
00:13Art.
00:14Uh, art?
00:15Art it is.
00:16It was something else.
00:18Oh, for God's sake, it's a toilet, it's a urinal.
00:21The reserve price is set on 600,000 US dollars.
00:30Marcel Duchamp.
00:31Marcel Duchamp.
00:32Marcel Duchamp.
00:33Marcel Duchamp.
00:34Marcel Duchamp.
00:35Marcel Duchamp.
00:36Duchamp did not disclose his identity as the man who submitted this urinal to the independents.
00:41This somehow makes him suspect.
00:43He is fabricating a story completely.
00:46The idea of Duchamp as an art thief has become something of an internet meme.
00:53Ready made.
00:54Ready made.
00:55What if the person behind the urinal was not Duchamp?
00:59This changes everything.
01:02A woman once described as a combination of Jesus Christ and Shakespeare rolled into one.
01:06Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhold.
01:08Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhold.
01:10Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhold.
01:12Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhold.
01:14Baroness Elsa da da.
01:19She wasn't written out of history, but she was never written in it.
01:23I write you this as a last farewell letter I'm gone to my death trap I have
01:34not become known enough and so I'm forgotten
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