WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: Marcel Duchamp - Deluxe Exhibition Catalog, 1991This deluxe exhibition catal

WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: Marcel Duchamp - Deluxe Exhibition Catalog, 1991

This deluxe exhibition catalog was published for the exhibition Marcel Duchamp at Ronny Van de Velde, IJzerenpoortkaai 3 2000 Antwerpen Belgium, September 15 - December 15, 1991.

The deluxe exhibition catalog comes in a reproduction of a chessboard designed by Duchamp in 1937.  Inside are several items including: a volume of essays by André Breton and Arturo Schwarz, a portfolio of reproductions of Duchamp’s works, a photograph of Duchamp, a copy of the ordinary edition of the Ronny van de Velde catalog, and an audiocassette of an interview with Duchamp in 1959 and Duchamp reading “The Creative Act”. 

The portfolio of reproductions includes: Allégorie de Genre (1943), Door for Gradiva (1937/1968), Moonlight on the Bay at Basswood (1953), Self Portrait in Profile (1958), Etant donnés 1˚ la chute d’ eau, 2˚ le gaz d’éclairage (1946-1966), Where do we go from here? (1961), les anaglyphes géométriques (1912), Cheminée anaglyphe (1968), and The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp (unfinished due to his death).

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