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

Marcel Duchamp · 1912–20, published 1966

This is The Continuum, from Duchamp's White Box — a folder of sixteen collotype facsimiles of his handwritten notes, one still carrying a pin. The notes were written between nineteen twelve and nineteen twenty and published nearly fifty years later, so the thinking arrived in public long after the objects did.

Medium Folder containing sixteen collotype reproductions of manuscript notes, one with pin · 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: Color from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box]), Duplicate of The Large Glass (supplementary suite, plate 2) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1

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