The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even. A typographic version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp's Green Box translated by George Heard Hamilton.

8vo.

Original green paper-covered boards (lower corners sl. rounded), spine and upper cover lettered in black and white stippled type, original glassine dust jacket . Good copy.

Original edition, British issue, of the translation and typographic interpretation of Duchamp's Green Box ("La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires même" or "Le grand verre" ("The Large Glass")). Profusely illustrated with photographic plates, full-page drawings, diagrams, various typographic formats, annotations, vignettes, and musical notation; complete with the folding leaf and 2 plates on translucent paper. "The Green Box" is a collection of 94 documents explaining the development and function of "The Large Glass," assembled between 1915 and 1923. During the 1930s Duchamp oversaw the first printed edition of the Green Box, with each of the 94 original notes meticulously reproduced in collotype in exact facsimile and issued loose in a green box. By 1956, the British artist Richard Hamilton had worked through the notes to develop a diagram of the areas in the glass to which he believed the subject of each notes related. And in 1960, Hamilton and George Heard Hamilton, professor of art history at Yale, produced this English translation of the Green Box, using typography, layout, and graphic design to communicate the intent of the original documents (online).