Skip to content

Egg Nog Jog Road Closures Morning of December 21:

Art Museum Drive closed and most parts of Eden Park Drive will be blocked. Take Gilbert Avenue to Eden Park Drive. Enter CAM via the Wyler Family Entrance off Eden Park Drive. Inform officers you’re visiting CAM for entry. Roads should fully open by early afternoon.

X

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), France, active in United States, Box in a Valise from or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy (Boîte-en-valise de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy), conceived 1935–41, edition E assembled in Paris in 1963, green linen imitation leather covered box containing mixedmedia assemblage/collage of miniature replicas, photographs, and color reproductions of works by Duchamp, Gift of Anne W. Harrison and Family in memory of Agnes Sattler Harrison and Alexina “Teeny” Sattler Duchamp, 2016.305, © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2018

Previous Next

Marcel Duchamp: Boîte-en-valise

February 10–May 6, 2018 | Gallery 104

 

Become a MemberFree Admission  Press Release  

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer. Between 1910 and 1914, he rapidly mastered, then discarded, the principal pre-war aesthetic movements—from Impressionism and Post-Impressionism to Fauvism, Cubism, and Futurism—and then withdrew from the Paris art world. By World War I Duchamp turned from what he referred to as ͞retinal͟art—art that appealed to the eye. His goal was to ͞put painting once again in the service of the mind,͟ which meant abandoning the traditional tools and techniques of painting and questioning every previous assumption about the boundaries of visual art. From that time forward he deliberately worked in a diversity of media and methods without repeating himself.