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Dictionaries and Atlases from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box])

Marcel Duchamp · 1912–20, published 1966

This is Dictionaries and Atlases from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box]) — an illustrated book by Duchamp, nineteen twelve to nineteen twenty, published nineteen sixty-six. The piece is folder containing nine collotype reproductions of manuscript notes, about 31 by 26 centimeters.

Medium Folder containing nine collotype reproductions of manuscript notes · Dimensions folder: 12 5/16 x 10 3/8" (31.2 x 26.3 cm) · Credit Gift of Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc.

Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: The Passage from Virgin to Bride, Appearance and Apparition from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box])

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Artist's Shit No. 014, Poster for a Dada exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery, Attention: Oeuvre d'Art, Text panel for Broadacre City Project, Title Page (Titelblatt) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser), Grocery Store

More by Marcel Duchamp here: Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?, In Advance of the Broken Arm, Network of Stoppages, Landscape, The Chess Players, The Passage from Virgin to Bride