Art Echoes® on Instagram: "Marcel Duchamp: Redefining Art with the Ready-Made Marcel Duchamp is a pivotal figure in the development of modern and contemporary art, renowned for his radical rethinking of art’s purpose and boundaries. His ready-mades—ordinary, mass-produced objects that he selected and presented as art—were groundbreaking in their challenge to traditional artistic practices. Duchamp’s most famous ready-made, Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal signed “R. Mutt,” became one of the m