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Duchamp finds a discarded urinal.  He alters it (by signing a name to it not even his own, but obviously “the artist’s”) and names it “The Fountain”. The most mundane, even off-putting, of objects is transformed by Duchamp into art. He submits it for exhibition and it is rejected.  You might say the judges “pissed on” his idea. But the idea was born and persisted. Duchamp insisted the object was art because he as an artist presented it as such. “Conceptual Art” was born.    .techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic)    by techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic)    Wed Dec 7, 2011, 7:59 PM Duchamp finds a