
Please Touch: Marcel Duchamp and the Fetish
Fetishism served Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) as a potent guiding principle as he traced his singular path in twentieth-century art. This sensual, erotic dimension is indivisible from his radical questioning of the very nature of the artwork and the role of the artist, which prompted painter Willem de Kooning to call him a "one-man movement" in 1951.