id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt n296ww74n5t Quinn Darlington Modernism's Miniatures: Space and Gender in the Stettheimer Dollhouse and Duchamp's BoƮte-en-Valise 2012 .txt text/plain 334 9 43 More than simply a vessel for the display of diminutive works by prominent artists such as Marcel Duchamp, however, the Dollhouse is itself a work of art that engages the avant-garde spirit of playfulness that is highlighted by the works it contains. In addition to providing Carrie with an outlet from her everyday domestic life, her Dollhouse, along with her activities in her home, were part of a systematic attempt to create aesthetically pleasing, fantastical environments and a theatrical mode of life, which can ultimately be viewed as avant-garde in its combination of art and lived reality. cache/n296ww74n5t.txt txt/n296ww74n5t.txt