1 gen 1935 anni - Marcel Duchamp, de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (Boîte-en-valise)

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Schachtel im Koffer,
1935-40 and 1963-66
Leather valise containing 80 miniature replicas, color reproductions, and photographs of works by Duchamp,
Höhe: 41,5 cm; Breite: 38,4 cm; Tiefe: 9,9 cm

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/371723

"I want to make, sometime, an album of approximately all the things I produced."

Between 1935 and 1941 Duchamp create a number of boxes called The Box in a Valise or From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Selavy, that contained three 3-dimensional replicas of his works; Paris Air, Underwood and Fountain.[17] The work was released in seven series, A through G. The first series, A, is numbered 1/XX though XX/XX and is a deluxe edition containing an original work of art, mounted in the lid of the box. It contains replicas of Duchamp's works mounted in a wooden frame that slide out in two wings, steadied by brass clips. The case contains 69 reproductions. The colour reproductions were produced using an already obsolete technique called pochoir, where a stencil was used to apply colour on a black-and-white reproduction, making every image, in a way, an original.[18][14] The works in the deluxe edition consist of a plywood box, fitted inside a leather-covered suitcase. When the box is opened, the frame is exposed in the form of an "M" for "Marcel".
Around the same time that Duchamp woprked on the Box in a Valise, Walter Benjamin published The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. While Benjamin lamented the loss of the artwork's aura, Duchamp appears to have embraced it.[14] Duchamp delighted in the fact that critic at the time still clung to the auratic notion of the singular art work and considered the work a print edition, not a work of art in itself. Benjamin himself, on the other hand, in 1937 in his diary noted "Saw Duchamp this morning, same café on the Boulevard St. Germain. Showed me his painting, Nude Descending a Staircase, in a reduced format, coloured by hand, en-pochoir. Breathtakingly beautiful."
Source: wikipedia, 15.11.2019, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_ou_par_Marcel_Duchamp_ou_Rrose_S%C3%A9lavy_%28La_Bo%C3%AEte-en-valise%29#The_Box_in_a_Valise

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