Living in Paris and New York，Marcel Duchamp had a profound influence on artists in both Europe and America—he counted as friends.among others，Guillaume Apollinaire.Francis Picabia，and Andre Breton，and worked on several films with Man Ray and Hans Richter：In 1955 Duchamp became a citizen of the United States，where he continued to influence all aspects of the contemporary art scene until his death in 1968.
This survey of Duchamp's career documents the artist's unusual achievement with more than 60 reproductions of his work and' an informative text discussing his preeminent role in the history of twentieth-century art.