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Title	Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2.
Translated Title	Nu descendant un escalier No. 2.
Creator	Duchamp, Marcel (French painter, sculptor, and writer, 1887-1968)
Date	1912
Cultural Context	French European Western European
Style/Period	Cubist Futurist
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Oil paintings (visual works) Kinetics (dynamics) Speed Motion Walking Figurative art Figures (representations) Nudes (representations) Stairs
Subject	Paintings Oil paintings Locomotion Human locomotion Walking Nudes Stairways
Description	"Marcel Duchamp submitted [to the 1913 New York Armory Show] Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, which was the most scandalous work of all. It was a humorous attack on Futurist proscriptions against traditional, Academic nudity. The image has a kinetic quality consistent with the Futurist interest in speed and motion. At the same time, the figure is a combination of Cubist form and multiple images that indicate the influence of photography. She is shown at different points in her descent, so the painting resembles a series of consecutive movie stills, unframed and superimposed. […] Duchamp recorded his own version of the Nude's place in the history of art: 'My aim was a static representation of movement - a static composition of indications of various positions taken by a form in movement - with no attempt to give cinema effects through painting.'"
Material	Oil on canvas Oil paint (pigmented coating) Paint Canvas
Measurements	4 ft 10 in x 2 ft 11 in (1.47 x 0.89 m)
Technique	Oil painting (technique) Painting (image-making)
Inscription	Lower left: NU DESCENDANT UN ESCALIER; Bottom center: Artist's signature
Work Type	Oil paintings Paintings
Repository	Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Source	Adams, Laurie Schneider. Art Across Time. 2nd ed. 2 vols. New York: McGraw, 2002. (p.[899], 25.18).
Rights	Reproduced in Adams courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art, Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection/ © 2001 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/Estate of Marcel Duchamp.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 437-16.jpg
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