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Duchamp in context : science and technology in the Large glass and related works
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Between 1915 and 1923, Marcel Duchamp wrote 'The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even'. Linda Henderson provides a study of the work in relation to the entire body of Duchamp's notes for the ...
Between 1915 and 1923, Marcel Duchamp wrote 'The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even'. Linda Henderson provides a study of the work in relation to the entire body of Duchamp's notes for the project.
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- Creator
- Linda Dalrymple Henderson
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- English
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 374 pages, plates) : 197 illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits
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- ISBNs
- 9780300267822, 0300267827, 0691123861, 9780691123868, 0691123861
- OCLC
- on1331440572
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. Duchamp's first quest for the invisible : X-rays, transparency, and internal views of the figure, 1911-1912 -- 2. The invisible reality of matter itself : electrons, radioactivity, and even alchemy, spring and summer 1912 -- 3. From painter to engineer, I : depersonalization of drawing style and adoption of human-machine analogies, fall 1912-1913 -- 4. The lure of science : imaginative scientists (Crookes, Tesla) and scientific imaginations (Jarry, Roussel) -- 5. From painter to engineer, II : a Rousselian dialogue with the equipment of science and technology begins, 1913-1914 -- 6. Toward the Large Glass : the box of 1914 and general introduction to the glass -- 7. First conceptions of the bride and her interaction with the bachelors -- 8. The Large Glass as a painting of electromagnetic frequency -- 9. Other scientific and technological dimensions of the bride -- 10. Other scientific and technological dimensions of the bachelors, I : the bachelor apparatus as playground of the would-be physical chemist -- 11. Other scientific and technological dimensions of the bachelors, II : the unknown mobile and desire dynamo, playful mechanics, and agriculture in the Large Glass -- 12. Conclusion, I : new thoughts on style and content in relation to science and technology in Duchamp's Large Glass -- 13. Conclusion, II : an overview of Duchamp's playful science and technology in the Large Glass and related early works -- 14. Coda : extensions and echoes of the Large Glass -- Appendix A. The collection of notes Duchamp contemplated in his 1950s legal tablet listings -- Appendix B. A note on the construction of Duchamp as alchemist