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Glass works

From 1915 to 1923, self-styled 鈥渁rtist-engineer-scientist鈥 Marcel Duchamp
constructed Large Glass, a humorous biomechanical palimpsest of contemporary
science, technology and sexuality. Post-Einstein, in a world whose physics is
profoundly nonvisual, Duchamp鈥檚 project smacks of arrogance. But, as Linda
Henderson demonstrates superbly in Duchamp in Context, Large Glass and its
accompanying notes are a working testament to the vitality of an earlier
physics鈥攊ts rays and ethers, its rare geometries and invisible worlds.
Published by Princeton University Press, 拢60/$85, ISBN
0691055513.

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