MARCEL DUCHAMP AND THE LURE OF THE COPY

n all his work, French visionary Marcel Duchamp (18871968)?Dadaist, Surrealist and progenitor of conceptual art?challenged the traditional dichotomy between original and copy. By replicating his own creations, with variable dimensions and in limited editions, Duchamp radically redefined what constitutes an artwork and, by extension, the identity of the artist. This volume places at its center the Boite en valise No. 1 in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.