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A Museum in Miniature: Exploring Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise with Matthew Affron, Curator of Modern Art at The Philadelphia Museum of Art
“Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase”
-Marcel Duchamp
In the mid-1930s, Marcel Duchamp embarked on a complex project: to create a collection of his most important works as miniature two- and three- dimensional replicas in a display container. This tiny museum became known informally as the Boîte-en-valise or Box in a Valise because of the leather case he designed for the deluxe edition. Duchamp maintained control of every aspect of the
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Jul 23rd 2020