Clothes Line and the Insufferable Clothes Pin Expedition

Duchamp sent instructions to the couple in Paris to buy a geometry book and hang it by strings from their balcony. As the artist explained, “The wind had to go through the book, choose its own problems, turn and tear out the pages.” The work was destroyed in the process of its making and is known only through a photograph taken, most probably, a few months after the book was installed outdoors.