Marcel Duchamp
(
Blainville-Crevon
1887 -
New York City
1968 )
Marcel Duchamp ou le Château de la Pureté, 1967
With 16 integrated color screen prints on the reverse sides
of the text pages and several illustrations, along with an
additional suite of 16 color screen prints in white on acetate foil.
Geneva, Édition Claude Givaudan, 1967.
101 pages, 2 leaves.
240 x 180 mm.
Original cardboard cover and original brochure housed
in the original slipcase (the latter with slight surface scratches).
Schwarz 641 – One of the 100 numbered copies
(total edition of 500) of the deluxe edition with
the additional suite of screen prints, signed in ink or ballpoint pen by Octavio Paz and Marcel Duchamp in the colophon. Duchamp's screen prints reference two of his major works: *Bicycle Wheel* (1913) and the readymade *Bottle Rack* (1914). The shadows of these sculptural works were combined into a single motif, silkscreened in white on acetate foil and divided into 16 individual cutouts, which, when laid side by side and illuminated appropriately, project silhouettes of the sculptures in their original form onto a wall.
The binding before the colophon has split, but the book is otherwise in excellent condition.
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