Marcel Duchamp / Box in a Valise / 1961

Marcel Duchamp
Box in a Valise
1961
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Creator Name: Duchamp, Marcel
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1887 - 1968
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Marcel Duchamp
Title: Box in a Valise
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1961
Creation End Date: 1961
Creation Date: 1961
Object Type: Mixed Media
Materials and Techniques: cardboard, paper, linen, wood, plexiglass
Dimensions: H.16 x W.14-3/4 x D.3-3/16 in.
Inscriptions: SIGNATURE; INSCRIPTION
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 97.20.2
Credit Line: The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
Copyright: ? Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel Duchamp
Rights: http://www.arsny.com
Context:

Boîte-en-Valise is a miniature portable museum of the work of Marcel Duchamp. It consists of 68 separate photographic reproductions and miniature replicas of the artist's most important works. The first boxes were assembled by Duchamp in 1941 and smuggled out of France during the Nazi occupation. In an era of mass emigration and political terror, the idea of packing up all of one's artworks in a suitcase would have seemed particularly practical. Like a museum installation, each work has a label identifying its title, medium, date, and, in many cases, its current owner. Assembled in 1961, this copy of Boîte-en-Valise is one of 300 produced by Duchamp or his relatives between 1941 and 1971. Despite its reproductive nature, the Boîte-en-Valise stands as one of Duchamp's most complex and challenging artistic statements.

AMICA ID: MIA_.97.20.2
Component Measured: overall, closed box
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 2001
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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