Where did British poet Wilfred Owen meet fellow poet Siegfried
Chapter 1

The year of revolutions and new rules

Chapter 2

The soundtrack of a changing society

Chapter 3

Silver screens and silent laughter

Chapter 4

Words and art that broke the rules

YOUR GOAL

Master of How the world remixed itself in 1917

Ch 4 · Words and art that broke the rules
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schopenhauer The birth of the Dutch De Stijl art movement.

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schopenhauer Marcel Duchamp's Fountain

Buy a urinal, sign it Mutt, call it art!

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The birth of the De Stijl art movement

schopenhauer Artists in the Netherlands launched the De Stijl movement in 1917, advocating for pure abstraction and simple geometry.

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T.S. Eliot publishes his first poetry collection

schopenhauer Poet T.S. Eliot published his groundbreaking collection in 1917, introducing modernist poetry to the English-speaking world.

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Out of Line
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schopenhauer Drag the 1917 headlines into place to discover which historical events are out of line.

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Fun Fact

Duchamp's lost urinal: The original Fountain urinal was lost shortly after its rejection, and all modern museum versions are authorized replicas.

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Glossary
dadaism (noun)
An early twentieth-century artistic and literary movement that rejected traditional aesthetic values through absurdity, irrationality, and subversion. In 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a signed urinal to a New York exhibition, embodying this radical aesthetic.

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Gossip

Would you consider Duchamp's signed urinal to be real art?

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Quiz

What everyday plumbing object did Marcel Duchamp sign and submit as an art piece titled 'Fountain' in 1917?

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schopenhauer Marcel Duchamp shocked the art world with a porcelain urinal.

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Where did British poet Wilfred Owen meet fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon in 1917 to write his famous war poems?

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schopenhauer Poet Wilfred Owen exposed the brutal reality of trench warfare

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What was the name of the anti-art, anti-establishment movement that Marcel Duchamp's 'Fountain' belonged to?

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The minimalist De Stijl art movement, founded in 1917, originated in which European country?

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What pseudonym did Marcel Duchamp use to sign his controversial 1917 artwork 'Fountain'?

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What was the main artistic philosophy of the De Stijl movement founded in 1917?

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Which Dutch artist, famous for his grid paintings with primary colors, co-founded the De Stijl movement in 1917?

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Which famous modernist poem by T.S. Eliot was featured in his 1917 poetry collection?

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