... 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...

... of famine, civil war, and recipients of aid. The novel transforms Marcel Mauss’s theory of the gift by exploring the phenomenological dimension of giving—the opening of a world—and how storytelling is an ethical form of reciprocal giving. Western humanitarianism is based on an idea of philanthropy...

... Berlant’s notion of cruel optimism—affective attachment to things that are painful or destructive. Finally, we see compulsion at play in the work of Marcel Proust, where material and affective forms, rather than language, determine the course of power. Extracting bodies from an analytical framework...

... deprived the Somali people of their autonomy and humanity because it dehumanizes them by reducing them to the passive victims of famine, civil war, and recipients of aid. The novel transforms Marcel Mauss’s theory of the gift by exploring the phenomenological dimension of giving—the opening of a world...