Italian / Italy
Marcel. Il bambino con la scatola verde
(Marcel. The child with the green box)
Murgia, Daniela Iride
(text/illus.)
Milano: Topipittori, [2018]. – [36] p.
ISBN 978-88-98523-91-7
Biography | Childhood | Picture book | Duchamp, Marcel | Artist
Reading age: 5+
White Ravens issue: 2018
Author-illustrator Daniela Iride Murgia constructs a portrait of Marcel Duchamp’s (1887-1968) childhood with great compositional finesse. Duchamp spends his childhood in a house with a large garden, his attentive gaze examining everything that surrounds him. He possesses a great vivacity of spirit and a constant urge to move. An idea leads him to wondrous inventions that stem from a montage of what he finds on the street. New, unusual life animates everyday objects, inspiring new perspectives. Then there is his passion for chocolate, and his fascination for the machine that produces the chewy, aromatic, decorated, enticing morsels on display in the show window of the candy shop. The passions, intuitions, and ideas that later mark Marcel Duchamp as an unusual artist are here introduced in tandem; from the start, he was captivated by multi-faceted forms of expression and the exploration of various styles and techniques.