Marcel Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise: The Museum of MetamorphosisMain MenuIntroductionThe Museum of MetamorphosisCatalogue essayThe Seven Series of BoîtesBoîtes in Museum Collections around the World…and OnlineFurther Reading[bibliography page]Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250
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12023-06-01T08:35:43-07:00Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250427002plain2023-06-01T13:55:37-07:00Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250In a 1966 interview, Duchamp told Pierre Cabanne, “I think painting dies, you understand. After forty or fifty years a picture dies, because its freshness disappears. Sculpture also dies. This is my own little hobbyhorse, which no one accepts, but I don’t mind. I think a picture dies after a few years like the man who painted it. Afterwards it’s called the history of art.” Pierre Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, trans. Ron Padgett (New York: Da Capo, 1979), 67. For the original French, see Pierre Cabanne, Entretiens avec Marcel Duchamp (Paris: Pierre Belfond, 1967), 124.