话杜尚人说,杜尚是二十世纪最伟大的艺术家之一。其实,“之一”二字显得多余,因为他确实就是最伟大的艺术家。此话并无否定其它伟大艺术家之意,而仅是肯定杜尚比他身前身后的别的伟大的艺术家们更伟大罢了。杜尚的伟大无疑始于他的惊世之作《泉》。尽管这件作品在参加美国军械库艺术展之前,由于杜尚用了化名莫托(R·Mutt)曾遭到其它评委们的并非无端的拒绝,当然也尽管直至今日这件作品仍然还没有得到艺术界权威们的一致认可,但几乎谁也不否认,假使艺术发展史的进程中不发生关于“泉”的事件,就不会有眼下我们早已见到的材料艺术、装置艺术、观念艺术、大地艺术及行为艺术的出现。《泉》的出现固然 According to Duchamp, Duchamp is one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. In fact, the word “one of” appears superfluous because he is indeed the greatest artist. There is no denial of the words of other great artists, but merely to affirm that Dushan is greater than any other great artist behind him. Duchamp’s greatness undoubtedly began in his stunning “Spring.” Although it was not an unwarranted refusal by Duchamp to use Rame Mutt’s allegations by other judges before taking part in the U.S. Armory Art Exhibition, of course, though this work has not yet been received However, almost no one denies that there will be no material art, installation art, concept of art that we have seen so far, provided that there is no incident on the “spring” in the course of the development of the art. The emergence of art, earth art and performance art. The emergence of “spring” of course