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Frankly, I’m not so interested that Robert Morris made a work about Litany of The Chariot in 1961, too. Thanks to George Heard Hamilton’s translations of Robert Lebel’s 1959 monograph and first-pass catalogue raisonné AND The Green Box, the entire English-speaking New York art world could suddenly read what their Duchamp fandom was actually about. I’m sure everyone was into it. Robert Morris, Litanies (Litany of the Chariot), 1961, ink on colored paper, 22 1/4 x 18 in., collection MoMA I AM interested, though, in where Morris’ first Duchamp-related work has been. Litanies (Litany of the Chariot) (1961), or as it’s signed and titled at the bottom, The Litanies of the Chariot by Marcel Duchamp. A Two and One Half Hour Recitation by R. Morris, is a drawing dated 2-18-61. Morris made it, we’re to understand, by writing out the “Litanies of the Chariot” text from The Green Book in miniscule cursive script until it filled a 22-inch sheet of paper, and that this took two and a half hours. As…

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