Hypermodern Summer, 1940: Beckett cheese/Pocket chess

By Pascalle Burton

Published 1 January 2021

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 In response to marcel Duchamp's 'Pocket Chess Set' 1943.


See the artwork that inspired this poem in the flesh, along with more than 100 of Marcel Duchamp’s world-renowned pieces, in ‘The Essential Duchamp’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 April – 11 August 2019.