Duchamp.The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors.1919-23[installed]

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Marcel Duchamp, who had been quick to assault the orthodoxies of the artworld with works like Fountain and L.H.O.O.Q., was also quick to criticize the "modern" over-infatuation with mechanization in The Bride Stripped Bare. In the next decade, a movie like Modern Times (1936) also criticized the excesses of this mentality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssYgejIBH_g

 

For the sexual connotations of the chocolate grinder, and of grinding in general, see Dubuffet's Woman with a Chocolate Grinder, from 1945.

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