... This chapter delineates the process by which a personal collection becomes part of a permanent archive within an established museum. It examines the donation by Walter and Louise Arensberg of Marcel Duchamp's works to the Philadelphia Museum of Art as its case study. The correspondence between...

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... This chapter considers the work of Marcel Duchamp, and particularly his 1959 work With My Tongue in My Cheek . Focusing on the years 1958–64, the chapter considers how Duchamp’s work underwent critical reappraisal on both sides of the Atlantic for the way it transformed the art object...

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... analyzes how artists such as Marcel Duchamp and his critical champions have promulgated the scientific management approach to divisions of labor through the readymade, which they situated as a new and innovative form. This chapter seeks to critically expose hierarchies that are formed through divisions...