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

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Linda Dalrymple Henderson is David Bruton, Jr., Centennial Professor in Art History and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Austin.

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"Linda Henderson's work stands out as a truly original contribution. . . . She has enlarged and illuminated our understanding of the most intelligent, elusive, and influential artist of the twentieth century."--Calvin Tomkins, author ofDuchamp: A Biography

"Henderson's book is the most thorough and dedicated analysis ever written about Duchamp's work. It represents the single most complete study of theLarge Glass and its scientific sources-one that is unlikely to be surpassed."--Francis Naumann, author ofMarcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

"In tracing the emergence of Duchamp's artworks from their actual cultural/scientific context, Henderson has produced what is quite simply an indispensable book."--Marjorie Perloff, author ofWittgenstein's Ladder and Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

"Among the readers of Linda Henderson's brilliant book, historians of science will be especially rewarded by her thorough research into an area hitherto insufficiently explored-how artists and other laypersons during Duchamp's time came to learn of, and draw upon, the stream of exciting results of early twentieth century science."--Gerald Holton, Harvard University

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"Linda Henderson's work stands out as a truly original contribution. . . . She has enlarged and illuminated our understanding of the most intelligent, elusive, and influential artist of the twentieth century."--Calvin Tomkins, author ofDuchamp: A Biography

"Henderson's book is the most thorough and dedicated analysis ever written about Duchamp's work. It represents the single most complete study of theLarge Glass and its scientific sources-one that is unlikely to be surpassed."--Francis Naumann, author ofMarcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

"In tracing the emergence of Duchamp's artworks from their actual cultural/scientific context, Henderson has produced what is quite simply an indispensable book."--Marjorie Perloff, author ofWittgenstein's Ladder and Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

"Among the readers of Linda Henderson's brilliant book, historians of science will be especially rewarded by her thorough research into an area hitherto insufficiently explored-how artists and other laypersons during Duchamp's time came to learn of, and draw upon, the stream of exciting results of early twentieth century science."--Gerald Holton, Harvard University