1 COMPAKATIVE •rama Volume 20FaU 1986Number 3 Tom Stoppard's Artist Descending A Staircase: Outdoing the 'Dada' Duchamp Katherine E. Kelly The title of Tom Stoppard's 1972 radio mystery Artist Descending A Staircase openly declares its kinship with Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending A Staircase...