BONK, Ecke. Marcel Duchamp: The Portable Museum. London: Thames and Hudson.1989.
Large 4to. Original publisher's grey cloth covered boards with publisher's emblem to front board and lettering to spine; White illustrated dust jacket wih black lettering to spine; pp. [vi], 323; marginal markings to front panel and toning to the upper edge; top edge with slight discolouration; otherwise very good.
First UK Printing
In 1939, the irreverent Marcel Duchamp, the great actor of the Dada movement, began work on a 'Portable Museum'; a collection comprised of all his most famous miniature works, including paintings, drawings and readymades.
In January 1941, he created La Boîte-en-valise (Box in a Valise): a cardboard box that fitted inside it sixty-nine miniature replicas and reproductions of his works. Until his death in 1968, there followed six further editions which included additional items and varied in their presentation.
Marcel Duchamp: The Portable Museum delves deep into the lineage of Marcel's box and documents Duchamp's revolutionary miniature project with 516 full-page illustraions, (164 in colour). The book makes accessible a crucial work of twentieth-century art, showcasing its resonance with the wider public decades after its creation.
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