The Case of Marcel Duchamp - ACE145.6

Rouen, 1913. Etching of machine for making chocolate, drawing by Leonardo da Vinci for machine for raising water. Part of first version of Duchamp’s Chocolate Grinder (1917). Plan. Etchings of perspective views. Second version of painting. Photograph of Duchamp with early version of the moving glider. Use of metal wire. Catalogues from hardware suppliers, clothing stores, etc. Sketches and models of the Bachelors. Duchamp voice over explains that he used three metre-long threads dropped onto a horizontal surface, and would keep the shape formed as it fell, thus producing his "standard stoppages". Holmes describes the moulded figures. Duchamp talks about them as well. Duchamp left France in 1915 and went to America. Photographs of, and adverse critical comment on the 1912 "International Exhibition of Modern Art". Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase had come in for the worst criticism. Photographs of Duchamp, including one with "The Others". More about The Bride Stripped Bare…. The cannon and the matches. The making of the sieves. The optical transformation of the Bachelors’ secretions. Woodcut of perspective drawing. The Witnesses, work on which continued for four years. Duchamp saying that sometimes giving up is better than "finishing".