Complete the account of display.
The usual convention places the ______ of the work at about 150 centimetres from the floor. Light exposure is counted cumulatively in ______-hours, which is why a work shown twice as brightly reaches its limit in half the time. Dimensions on a label are given ______ before width. Duchamp webbed the First Papers of Surrealism in 1942 with a mile of ______.
Word bank: centre · lux · height · string · top edge · depth
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- The first blank is measured to the middle of the picture, not to a fitting.
- The third blank is the dimension that comes first in every catalogue.
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The usual convention places the centre of the work at about 150 centimetres from the floor. Light exposure is counted cumulatively in lux-hours, which is why a work shown twice as brightly reaches its limit in half the time. Dimensions on a label are given height before width. Duchamp webbed the First Papers of Surrealism in 1942 with a mile of string.
The third blank looks like pedantry and is not. Reversing the two numbers turns a portrait format into a landscape one in every catalogue, website and loan form that copies the label, and the error propagates for decades because nobody re-measures a work they have not seen.
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