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Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works

By (author) Linda Dalrymple Henderson

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Between 1915 and 1923, Marcel Duchamp created one of the most mystifying art works of the early 20th century: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as the Large Glass ). The work is over nine feet tall, and on its glass surface Duchamp used such unorthodox materials as lead wire, lead foil, mirror silver, and dust, in addition to more conventional oil paint and varnish. Duchamp's declared subject is the relation between the sexes, but his protagonists are biomechanical creatures: a Bride in the upper panel hovers over a Bachelor Apparatuis in the panel below, stimulating the Bachelors with love gasoline for an electrical stripping . In preparation for the Large Glass , Duchamp wrote hundreds of notes, which he considered just as important as the work itself. He published 178 during his lifetime, but over 100 more notes relating to the Glass were discovered and published following his death. In this book, Linda Henderson provides the first systematic study of the Large Glass in relation to the entire corpus of Duchamp's notes for the project. Since Duchamp declared his interest in creating a Playful Physics, she focuses on the scientific and t

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