Marcel Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise: The Museum of Metamorphosis

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Ecke Bonk, “Marcel Duchamp,” in The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, ed. Kynaston McShine (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1999), 55. See also, Marcel Duchamp to Suzanne Duchamp and Jean Crotti, New York, August 17, 1952, cited in Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp: The Box in a Valise, trans. David Britt (New York: Rizzoli, 1989), 18, a letter in which Duchamp remarks, “Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others.”