By Andrew Stafford
Because Duchamp’s masterpiece The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (AKA The Large Glass) is meant to be, in Duchamp’s words, a “delay in glass”—that is, a frozen moment in time of a system that is supposed to be imagined in motion—it can be difficult to wrap one’s head around. The best and most lucid explanation I have seen of the work is on Andrew Stafford’s fantastic website “Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp,” which visually demonstrates what the system would look like if viewed in motion. To get to the animation (and explanation) of The Large Glass click here.