Knowra The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even Marcel Duchamp’s unfinished glass construction, also known as The Large Glass, arranges the Bride and her Bachelors in separate mechanical realms. Its imagery draws on erotic desire, chance, and machinery.
The Bride : The upper realm of Duchamp’s glass construction, representing a bride as a detached, mechanized figure. Her suspended realm occupies the upper panel and initiates the work’s erotic machinery.
Chocolate Grinder : A machine motif in The Large Glass, based on a commercial chocolate grinder and associated with the bachelors’ realm. Its repeated rollers anchor the lower panel’s imaginary machinery.
Marcel Duchamp : A French-American artist whose work challenged conventional ideas of authorship, artistic skill, and the art object. He devised the glass construction and its accompanying system of notes.
Philadelphia Museum of Art : An art museum in Philadelphia whose collection includes major works of modern and contemporary art. It houses the original glass construction in the Arensberg Collection.
Dada : An avant-garde movement that used anti-rational and anti-art gestures in response to modern society and World War I. The work’s deliberate resistance to conventional representation resonates with Dada’s artistic disruptions.
The Bachelors : The lower realm of Duchamp’s glass construction, populated by nine male figures represented through mechanical forms. Their lower panel stages desire as machinery directed toward the unreachable Bride.
Malic Moulds : Nine hollow forms in the lower panel of The Large Glass, each associated with one of the bachelors. They give the bachelors’ abstract forms a mold-like, bodily structure.
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (Green Box) : Duchamp’s 1934 publication of notes and reproductions concerning The Large Glass. This publication gathers preparatory materials that Duchamp kept distinct from the finished glass.
Katherine Dreier : An American art collector and patron who supported modern artists, including Marcel Duchamp. She commissioned the work and later donated it with the Arensberg collection.
Surrealism : An artistic and literary movement that explored dreams, unconscious desire, and unexpected juxtapositions. Its erotic, enigmatic imagery overlaps with concerns later central to Surrealism.
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