From the Green Box.
by DUCHAMP, Marcel
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New Haven: The Readymade Press,, 1957. The artist's notes on the "The Large Glass" First edition, first printing, one of only 400 copies, scarce in the jacket. This title publishes for the first time in book form, and the first time in English, a selection of the author's notes on the composition of his ground-breaking work, La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même ("The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even"). In 1934, Duchamp published The Green Box, an edition of 20 green boxes collecting 94 loose facsimile documents pertaining to the conception and execution of La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même, more commonly known as "The Bride", or "The Large Glass". Here 25 of the more conceptual, philosophical notes are reproduced. Ostensibly an insight into Duchamp's method, the "'commentaries' on the figures and forms depicted in the 'Large Glass' were anything but explanatory. No less ambiguous or freely interpretable than the visual forms in the glass painting itself, these commentaries, couched in the metaphorical language of psychologized physics and chemistry, portrayed love as an erotic funfair" (Molderings). Octavo. Original black boards lettered in black on cream ground, spine lettered in cream. With dust jacket. Spine and covers toned, a little wear to foot of spine, extremities lightly rubbed, a touch of foxing to spine and edges of contents, faint offsetting to endpapers. A very good copy indeed, square and clean, jacket with extremities lightly rubbed, a few short closed tears, slight loss to spine ends, a couple of tiny chips to edges; a nice example of the scarce jacket. Herbert Molderings, Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance: Art as Experiment, 2010.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 159034
- Title
- From the Green Box.
- Author
- DUCHAMP, Marcel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New Haven: The Readymade Press,
- Date Published
- 1957
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
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