Duchamp in context : science and technology in the Large glass and related works / Linda Dalrymple Henderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henderson, Linda Dalrymple, 1948- author.

Contributor:

Princeton University Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and science.

Bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even (Duchamp, Marcel).

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968--Criticism and interpretation.

Duchamp, Marcel.

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968. Bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even.

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 374 pages, plates) : 197 illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on June 21, 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300267822

0300267827

OCLC:

1331440572