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
Zoom function
12023-05-15T09:15:54-07:00Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250427003plain2023-05-15T09:32:07-07:00Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250Enabling viewers to narrow in on whichever details of a photograph of an artwork they choose, the Zoom function (common on museum websites) gives today's online imaginary museum a key advantage over Malraux's. Drawing one closer to the object as if one were moving through real, continuous space, it vividly simulates the experience of seeing the Boîte open on a tabletop.
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1media/Screen Shot 2023-05-13 at 4.09.26 PM_thumb.png2023-05-13T14:13:33-07:00Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250Boîte-en-valise II/XX, at the National Galleries, Scotland4Duchamp inscribed this Boîte-en-valise to Surrealist-affiliated artist and writer Georges Hugnet in May 1941. Its "original" is a color guide for the reproduction of The Large Glass.media/Screen Shot 2023-05-13 at 4.09.26 PM.pngplain2023-05-14T16:09:53-07:00National Galleries, Scotland. Artwork photographed by Antonia Reeve.55.95299458177585, -3.224471837611854Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250