Global Art • 1960 • III
George Heard Hamilton publishes Marcel Duchamp from the Green Box, an English translation of twenty-five of the boxes' notes. He makes little attempt at ordering Duchamp's haphazard notes. A year earlier, British artist Richard Hamilton had managed to produce an annotated diagram of The Large Glass that emphasised the relevance of specific notes to areas on the actual work. The diagram was sent to Duchamp, who urged Hamilton to contact his friend Heard Hamilton to discuss the possibility of deciphering and translating the entire contents of the box. Hamilton takes up the challenge and the collaboration results in The Green Book, a full translation of The Green Box, published in 1960. "We are crazy about the book...your labour of love has given birth to a monster of veracity and a crystalline trans-substantation [sic] of the French Green Box...The Bride must be blossoming ever more" – Duchamp to Richard Hamilton.