Linda Henderson
Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the "Large Glass" and Related Works
Princeton:
Princeton University Press,
1997.
374 pp.; few color ills.
Cloth
(0691055513)
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January 29, 2002
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The title of this book, Duchamp in Context, is an apt summation of Linda Dalrymple Henderson’s project: to recover Duchamp’s artistic evolution toward and the full range of scientific and technological sources for The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) (1915-23), his most important work. To say she succeeds is an understatement. This study is so rich in new information it is a veritable encyclopedia. Here is the long-awaited toolbox for...