The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
Artwork by Marcel Duchamp
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (in French : La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même), also called The Large Glass (in French : Le Grand Verre), is an artwork by Marcel Duchamp over 9 feet (2.7 m) tall and almost 6 feet (1.76m) wide. Duchamp worked on the piece from 1915 to 1923 in New York City, creating two panes of glass with materials such as lead foil, fuse wire, and dust. It combines chance procedures, plotted perspective studies, and laborious craftsmanship. Duchamp's ideas for The Large Glass began in 1912, and he made numerous notes and studies, as well as preliminary works for the piece. The notes reflect the creation of unique rules of physics and myth which describe the work. The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is also the title given to The Green Box notes (1934), as Duchamp intended The Large Glass to be accompanied by a book in order to prevent purely visual responses to it. The notes describe that his "hilarious picture" is intended to depict...
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