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Duchamp in context. Science and technology in the "Large Glass" and related works
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ISBN: 0691055513 Year: 1998 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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Between 1915 and 1923, Marcel Duchamp created one of the most mystifying art works of the early twentieth century: 'The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even' (also known as the' Large Glass'). The work is over nine feet tall, and on its glass surface Duchamp used such unorthodox materials as lead wire, lead foil, mirror silver, and dust, in addition to more conventional oil paint and varnish. Duchamp's declared subject is the relation between the sexes, but his protagonists are biomechanical creatures: a "Bride" in the upper panel hovers over a "Bachelor Apparatus" in the panel below, stimulating the "Bachelors" with "love gasoline" for an "electrical stripping."In preparation for the 'Large Glass', Duchamp wrote hundreds of notes, which he considered just as important as the work itself. He published 178 during his lifetime, but over 100 more notes relating to the 'Glass' were discovered and published following his death. In this landmark 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 doing so, Henderson provides an unprecedented history of science as popularly known at the turn of the century, centered on late Victorian physics. In addition to electromagnetic waves, including X-rays and the Hertzian waves of wireless telegraphy, the areas of science to which Duchamp responded so creatively ranged from chemistry and classical mechanics to thermodynamics, Brownian movement, radioactivity, and atomic theory. Restored to its context and amplified by the information in the posthumously published notes, the 'Large Glass' appears far richer and more multifaceted and witty than had ever been suspected.Henderson also includes a close examination of Duchamp's literary and artis

The elusive synthesis : aesthetics and science
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ISBN: 0792339045 9780792339045 Year: 1996 Volume: 182 Publisher: Dordrecht Boston Kluwer


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Historia physiologiae : de fabulis, artibus et scientiis
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ISBN: 9789058644091 Year: 2015 Publisher: Gent Universiteit Gent. Faculteit Diergeneeskunde. Vakgroep Vergelijkende Fysiologie en Biometrie


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Eerst de waarheid, dan de schoonheid. Beschouwingen over wetenschap en kunst
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ISBN: 9035126440 Year: 2004 Publisher: Amsterdam Bert Bakker

Picturing science, producing art
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ISBN: 0415919126 0415919118 9780415919128 9780415919111 9780203699942 9781135207502 9781135207458 9781135207496 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Routledge

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The internationally renowned contributors go beyond both science wars and culture wars by exploring substantive links between systems of visual representation and knowledge in science and art. Contributors include Svetlana Alpers, Jonathan Crary, Arnold Davidson, Carlo Ginzburg, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and Simon Schaffer.

L'ordre et la volupté : Essai sur la dynamique esthétique dans les arts et dans les sciences.
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ISBN: 2880741629 9782880741624 Year: 1989 Publisher: Lausanne : Presses Polytechniques Romandes,

Information arts : intersections of art, science, and technology
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ISBN: 026223209X 0262731584 9780262731584 9780262232098 Year: 2002

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