This is a one page high school level paper without a reference page. (Following is the first paragraph)
Marcel Duchamp sprang on the world of art already a legend, playing games with fawning critics anxious to be a part of the newest wave. Picasso said he was not an artist, but rather an entertainer who understood his times. He could have been speaking of Duchamp. Pistoletto produced a conceptual piece he called Venus of Rags. What can be said of a mountain of rags? Pistoletto learned from Duchamp that in the gullible world of art, no one wishes to be taken for un-cool and therefore agrees that a genius has been on the scene. It hasn’t. Dada is defined as the production of works marked by nonsense and travesty.His Venusshows he understood.