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French artist was involved in several of the new modern artistic movements of the Age of Anxiety in the early twentieth century. He attended the 1913 Armory Show in New York City, where audiences were perplexed by his proto-cubist, proto-futurist work of art titled Nude Descending a Staircase (many asked “where is the nude?”). He was also involved in the absurdist Dada movement. His Dadaist art installation from 1917, Fountain, was signed by the pseudonym R. Mutt and was simply a men’s urinal turned on its side and bolted to a base. These new modern artistic styles reflected the desire of artists to depict and interpret the complexities of modern life in new ways.