A creepy and genuinely startling experience. A lot of people see the door and the little identification plaque and walk on - I guess after looking at urinals and bicycle wheels on stools, they figure it's just a door. The body is made of leather, which is really odd - the waterfall in the back moves and the lamp glows. Duchamp spent twenty years working on this in secret; the world assumed he had stopped making art. After his death, Etant Donnes was discovered in his NYC apartment along with complete instructions in the form of a journal. Artist as trickster, satirist, magician.

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