“Artists can’t shock people today,” said Marcel Duchamp in 1961. He should know: by 1961, Duchamp had become famous for painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa and displaying an upturned urinal in an art gallery, titling it “Fountain.”
But the artists didn’t listen. They went on trying to shock the public. They dropped crucifixes into tubs filled with urine
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