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

By:

Henderson, Linda Dalrymple, 1948-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998.ISBN:

0691055513

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

709.2 21

LOC classification:

N6853.D8

Contents:

Pt. I. Duchamp and Invisible Reality, 1911-1912. 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 -- Pt. II. The Transition from Painter to Artist as Engineer-Scientist, Fall 1912-1914. 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 -- Pt. III. "Playful" Science and Technology in The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915-1923. 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 -- Pt. IV. Conclusion. 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. App. A. The Collection of Notes Duchamp Contemplated in His 1950s Legal Tablet Listings -- App. B. A Note on the Construction of Duchamp as Alchemist.

Summary: Between 1912 and 1918, Marcel Duchamp made hundreds of notes in preparation for the execution of his major work, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1915-23), also known as the Large Glass. Considering these notes to be as important as the Glass itself, Duchamp published three sets during his lifetime - 178 notes in all. But since his death in 1968, more than 100 further notes about the work have been discovered and published. 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 technological themes that pervade the notes and the imagery of the Large Glass. In order to recover that content, Henderson provides an unprecedented history of science as popularly known at the turn of the century, centered on the late Victorian physics that dominated scientific practice and the public imagination.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Between 1912 and 1918, Marcel Duchamp made hundreds of notes in preparation for the execution of his major work, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1915-23), also known as the Large Glass. Considering these notes to be as important as the Glass itself, Duchamp published three sets during his lifetime - 178 notes in all. But since his death in 1968, more than 100 further notes about the work have been discovered and published. 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 technological themes that pervade the notes and the imagery of the Large Glass. In order to recover that content, Henderson provides an unprecedented history of science as popularly known at the turn of the century, centered on the late Victorian physics that dominated scientific practice and the public imagination.