Did Duchamp was a quack? What about contemporary artists?

How an artist can consider his masterpiece an object that he even produced? For me, Duchamp was a quack, but I forgot one thing: the historical context!

Acquavella Galleries Opens Exhibition Documenting the Scull Collection

NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday April 13th Acquavella Galleries will open an exhibition that documents the amazing, unerring eye and acquisitive passion of the colorful New York couple who dominated the contemporary art world in the 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition continues through May 27th. Robert and Ethel Scull were to art collectors of the 1960s what Andy Warhol was to the artists. Pioneer collectors of Pop art (known as the Mom and Pop of Pop), they were everywhere [...]