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Box in a Valise (From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy): Gallery Label - Current

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Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Institution Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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.
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Source: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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Added to Site: April 26, 2012