Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp

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Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp is a groundbreaking early 20th-century artwork that combines painting, sculpture, and conceptual art on glass to explore themes of desire, mechanics, and chance.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artwork
conceptual artwork
glass painting
mixed-media artwork
alsoKnownAs The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
surface form: La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même

The Large Glass
artForm installation
painting
sculpture
artist Marcel Duchamp
collection Philadelphia Museum of Art
completionDate 1923
countryOfOrigin France
creator Marcel Duchamp
damagedIn transport accident in 1926
depicts bachelors
bride
erotic desire
mechanical forms
exhibitionHistory First exhibited in incomplete form at Brooklyn Museum, 1926
feature intentional retention of cracks as part of the work
genre Dada
hasPart Capillary Tubes
Chocolate Grinder
Draft Pistons
Juggler of Gravity
Milky Way
Nine Malic Moulds
Oculist Witnesses
Shot
bachelors section
bride section
lower panel
upper panel
inception 1915
1923
influenced installation art
minimalist artists
postwar conceptual artists
languageOfAlternativeTitle English
languageOfTitle French
location Philadelphia Museum of Art
materialUsed dust
foil
glass
lead wire
oil paint
movement Conceptual art
Dada
Surrealism
notableFor combination of painting and sculpture
influence on conceptual art
integration of chance operations
use of transparent glass as primary support
theme chance
desire
failure of communication
mechanization
sexuality
title The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even

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Philadelphia Museum of Art notableWorkInCollection Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp