Etymology: French, akin to Medieval Latin valisia.
It is Marcel Duchamp's "Boite-en-valise" (Box in a Valise) that has inspired the name of this weblog.
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| Marcel Duchamp: "Boite-en-valise" |
"Boite-en-valise" was effectively a travelling portfolio of reproductions (in miniature) of some of the artworks Duchamp had produced. That they are artworks in and of themselves called into question many basic tenets of the modern art world - originality, authorship, art collecting, reproduction, and so on, in a way consistent with much of Duchamp's output - the most famous being, of course, the series of 'Readymades', perhaps the most famous of which, "Fountain", is pictured below:
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| Marcel Duchamp: "Fountain" |
valise, the weblog, like "Boite-en-valise", is intended to both carry, and lay out some of the work and thinking of its authors.
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| Marcel Duchamp: "Boite-en-valise" |
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