The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even

Duchamp, Marcel

dc.coverage.temporal	creation date: 1958	en_US
dc.creator	Duchamp, Marcel	en_US
dc.date	1958	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2011-04-12T18:31:23Z
dc.date.available	2011-04-12T18:31:23Z
dc.date.issued	1958	en_US
dc.identifier	159196	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/63295	en_US
dc.description	Oil, varnish, lead foil, lead wire, and dust on glass plate mounted between two glass panels "Surely one of the most enigmatic works of art in any museum, The Large Glass dominates a gallery devoted to Marcel Duchamp's work from the exact location in which he placed it in 1954. Painstakingly executed on two planes of glass with unconventional materials such as lead foil, fuse wire, and dust, the appearance of the Glass is the result of an extraordinary combination of chance procedures, carefully plotted perspective studies, and laborious craftsmanship. As for its metaphysical aspect, Duchamp's voluminous preparatory notes, published in 1934, reveal that his "hilarious picture" is intended to diagram the erratic progress of an encounter between the "Bride," in the upper panel, and her nine "Bachelors" gathered timidly below amidst a wealth of mysterious mechanical apparatus. Exhibited only once (in 1926 at the Brooklyn Museum) before it was accidentally broken and laboriously repaired by the artist, the Glass joined the Museum's collection in 1953 and has gradually become the subject of a vast scholarly literature and the object of pilgrimages for countless visitors drawn to its witty, intelligent, and vastly liberating redefinition of what a work of art can be." from PMA website accessed 7/8/2004 http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/modern_contemporary/1952-98-1.shtml	en_US
dc.description	full view, hand colored by Duchamp, inscribed "Marcellus Coloriavit" (included in "Eau & Gaz à tous les étages," deluxe edition of Robert Lebel's book on Duchamp	en_US
dc.format.medium	paint	en_US
dc.format.medium	photographs	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	141016	en_US
dc.subject	Machinery	en_US
dc.subject	Brides	en_US
dc.subject	Marriage	en_US
dc.subject	Conceptual art	en_US
dc.subject	Courtship	en_US
dc.subject	Sculpture, Abstract	en_US
dc.subject	Dadaism	en_US
dc.subject	Consumption (Economics)	en_US
dc.subject	Love	en_US
dc.subject	Defloration	en_US
dc.subject	Sex symbolism	en_US
dc.subject	Art and technology	en_US
dc.subject	Puns and punning	en_US
dc.subject	Wit and humor	en_US
dc.subject	Sculpture, French --20th century	en_US
dc.title	The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.rights.access	All rights reserved	en_US
vra.culturalContext	American	en_US
vra.technique	painting (image-making)	en_US
vra.technique	photography	en_US
vra.worktype	Photograph	en_US
dc.contributor.display	painter: painting on photograph by Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968)	en_US