Bachelor Machine / Bride Motor : A typo/topography of the Large Glass
Marcel Duchamp, Anne d'Harnoncourt, Richard and Roderic Hamilton
Almost eighty years after Marcel Duchamp declared The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) to be “definitively unfinished,” it remains among the most radical and influential works of art of the twentieth century.
This computer-generated double map of the Bride (MARiée) and the Bachelors (CELibataires) is the latest stage in Richard Hamilton’s more than fifty year engagement with the art of Marcel Duchamp. His translations and type settings of both The Green Box and The White Box (Duchamp’s hand written notes for The Large Glass) inspired in him the desire to make a visual guide to the Glass. This mapping project, produced with the assistance of the société Michelin, succeedes beautifully in being just that: an elegant and intelligent chart of his friend’s enigmatic and provocative ideas.
All drawings and design by Richard and Roderic Hamilton with an introductory essay by Anne d'Harnoncourt of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2002
Two folded maps, encased in plastic sheath
24.5 x 11 cm, folded
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Marcel Duchamp, Anne d'Harnoncourt, Richard and Roderic Hamilton
Almost eighty years after Marcel Duchamp declared The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) to be “definitively unfinished,” it remains among the most radical and influential works of art of the twentieth century.
This computer-generated double map of the Bride (MARiée) and the Bachelors (CELibataires) is the latest stage in Richard Hamilton’s more than fifty year engagement with the art of Marcel Duchamp. His translations and type settings of both The Green Box and The White Box (Duchamp’s hand written notes for The Large Glass) inspired in him the desire to make a visual guide to the Glass. This mapping project, produced with the assistance of the société Michelin, succeedes beautifully in being just that: an elegant and intelligent chart of his friend’s enigmatic and provocative ideas.
All drawings and design by Richard and Roderic Hamilton with an introductory essay by Anne d'Harnoncourt of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2002
Two folded maps, encased in plastic sheath
24.5 x 11 cm, folded
Price on request
Enquire