New edition of Duchamp's writings includes 289 notes

Flammarion has released a new pocket edition of Duchamp du signe – Notes, updating the 1994 edition. The first part compiles texts approved by Marcel Duchamp during his lifetime, organized chronologically and excluding correspondence, non-written interventions, exhibition catalogues, and chess-related texts. The second part, Notes, contains 289 notes numbered and standardized by Paul Matisse after the artist's death. This edition respects the composition of previous, often out-of-print editions but features a new, airy layout with facsimiles and photographs. Duchamp's writings are considered integral to his practice, neither manifestos nor explanations but works in their own right. In 1934, the publication of notes on The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (the Green Box) established Duchamp as a writer. In 1959, Le Marchand du sel was published by Éditions du Terrain vague, the first partial collection of texts produced during his lifetime in collaboration with Michel Sanouillet, later expanded and supplemented by notes collected by Paul Matisse after Duchamp's death. A complete edition of these notes is still awaited.