The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box)

Marcel Duchamp American, born France

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This edition of selected notes details the ideas and thought processes behind Duchamp's ground-breaking work The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) (1915–23, Philadelphia Museum of Art). The haphazard appearance of the box’s contents belies the care Duchamp took in its creation: he painstakingly tore collotype reproductions along the edges of custom-made templates in the shape of ninety-three notes originally written on stray scraps of paper. The results offer viewers the opportunity to become active participants in the notes’ arrangement and interpretation.

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box), Marcel Duchamp (American (born France), Blanville 1887–1968 Neuilly-sur-Seine), Box containing collotype reproductions on various papers

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