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Description: To Be Looked At (From the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close To, for...

TitleTo Be Looked At (From the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close To, for Almost an Hour

Creator nameDuchamp, Marcel

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1918

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsOil paint, silver leaf, lead wire, and magnifying lens on glass (cracked); on painted wood base

Dimensions20 x 1/8 x 16 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (51 x 41.2 x 3.7 cm); 1 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 4 1/2 in. (4.8 x 45.3 x 11.4 cm); overalll height 22 in. (58.8 cm)

LocationMuseum of Modern Art, New York

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78993?locale=en

Accession number150.1953

SubjectsSculpture, AbstractMixed media (Art)Glass sculpture--20th centuryFourth dimensionMirrors in artReflection (Optics) in art

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13. Conclusion, II: An Overview of Duchamp’s Playful Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Early Works

Linda Dalrymple Henderson

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

~The phrase “continuum of points of magnetization or of repulsion” appears in one of several notes in which Duchamp set up laboratory-like experiments with falling objects meant to explore the effects of chance and...

Author

Linda Dalrymple Henderson

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.185-206

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00306.14

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Chapter subject tags:Art and scienceDuchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968. Bride stripped bare by her bachelors, evenLeonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519Power (Mechanics)Modernism (Art)Dadaism

Joseph Stella and the “Conjunction of WORLDS”

Ruth L. Bohan

The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America

In 1921 Richard Boix, a cartoonist for Vanity Fair and The Dial, produced a cartoon showing Katherine Dreier and members of the Société Anonyme on the occasion of the organization’s Symposium on the Psychology of Modern Art and Archipenko (see fig. 6 in Gross’s introductory essay in the present volume). The...

Author

Ruth L. Bohan

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.17-31

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00159.005

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Chapter subject tags:Stella, Joseph, 1877-1946Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968Art, ModernArt--Societies, etcDreier, Katherine Sophie, 1877-1952

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