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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12023-06-01T08:42:29-07:00Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250427001plain2023-06-01T08:42:29-07:00Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250The idea of “aura” invoked here derives from Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1969). See Filipovic, The Apparently Marginal Activities, 114–21, and Elena Filipovic, “A Museum That Is Not,” e-flux, no. 4 (2009), for discussion of the Boîte’s reproductive strategy as functioning to both “efface” and “underscore” “the aura of the unique work of art” (“A Museum That Is Not”).