58 Claude Bragdon, “Personalities

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Description: Mechanical Expression Seen through Our Own Mechanical Expression

TitleMechanical Expression Seen through Our Own Mechanical Expression

Creator namePicabia, Francis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1913

Object typePainting

MaterialsWatercolor and pencil on paper

LocationPrivate collection, Paris

SubjectsHuman-machine systemsPainting, French--20th centuryX-ray tubesDadasim

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4. The Lure of Science: Imaginative Scientists (Crookes, Tesla) and Scientific Imaginations (Jarry, Roussel)

Linda Dalrymple Henderson

Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works

~For Duchamp, science was never simply an ascetic intellectual pursuit. The rapid-fire discoveries of the late nineteenth century—X-rays, electrons, radioactivity, and wireless telegraphy, for example—could...

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Linda Dalrymple Henderson

PublisherPrinceton University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Art and scienceTesla, Nikola, 1856-1943Crookes, William, 1832-1919Picabia, Francis, 1879-1953Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907ElectromagnetismRoussel, Raymond, 1877-1933

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