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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/640/649-15.jpg
Title	Given: 1. The Waterfall/ 2. The Illuminating Gas.
Translated Title	Etant donnés: 1. La Chute d'eau/ 2. Le Gaz d'éclairage.
Creator	Duchamp, Marcel (French painter, sculptor, and writer, 1887-1968)
Date	1946-1966
Cultural Context	French European Western European
Theme	Sculpture (visual work) Assemblages (sculpture) Constructions (sculpture) Mixed media Figurative art Figures (representations) Women Nudes (representations) Nudity Overhead views Light (energy) Lighting Lighting devices Fluorescent lamps (lighting devices) Fluorescent lighting Spotlights Gas lamps Lamps (lighting devices) Trees Forests Woods (plant communities) Plants (vegetation) Vegetation Landscapes (representations) Ponds Waterfalls (natural bodies of water) Bodies of water
Subject	Sculpture Mixed media Women Nudes Nudism Light Lighting Gas-lighting Lamps Luminescent works Trees Plants Forests Landscapes (Representations) Lakes & ponds Bodies of water Waterfalls
Description	Mixed media assemblage including: an old wooden door, black velvet, bricks, wooden table, leather stretched over an armature of metal and other material to form a female nude, human hair, gas lamp (bec Auer type), twigs, aluminum, iron, glass, painted glass, ground glass, linoleum, cotton, light bulb, fluorescent light, spotlight, electric motor, etc.; "At the end of the large gallery where the Large Glass and the other Duchamps of the Arensberg collection are shown opens a small room in which the visitor is confronted with an old barn door of the type common in the European countryside. Approaching the door, he will notice two fairly large oblique holes at average eye level. On looking through them he will probably have to hold his breath. The visitor will behold a scene of unique beauty that associates a perfect trompe l'oeil realism with an irrational unreal setting. As in a science-fiction novel the back wall of the barn suddenly disappears to give way to a hilly, wooded landscape. A thick cluster of trees, in late summer with autumn tonalities, stretches along the horizon, outlined against a light turquoise sky with a few solitary clouds. To the right, just below the line of trees and escaping from the rocks surrounded by thick vegetation, is a waterfall slowly and endlessly precipitating in a wide pond. Surrounding the deeply incased pond and covering the whole background, is an intensely exuberant plant life on which floats, at certain points, a light mist, enhancing the feeling of depth and magnitude. In the foreground a battered brick wall - the impression is that the aperture in the wall has been made by an old-fashioned cannon shot - discovers the Bride finally stripped bare by her Bachelor. […] The Bride is spread on a bed of dead twigs and fallen leaves. Her legs are provocatively open, offering with exhibitionist gusto the sight of her hairless sex. Her left hand is raised and holds a glowing gas lamp, as if to better illuminate her cunt. Her head cannot be seen - the anonymity of the Bride must be preserved. A wave of blond hair partially covers her left shoulder. The whole scene is bathed in a brilliant light which has a peculiar quality that escapes definition." (Excerpt, p.558)
Material	Mixed media Wood (plant material) Velvet Cloth Textiles Brick (clay product) Leather Metal Hair Human hair Aluminum (metal) Iron (metal) Glass (material) Cotton (fiber) Light (energy) Tables (support furniture) Linoleum Doors Gas lamps Lamps (lighting devices) Fluorescent lamps (lighting devices) Spotlights Motors
Measurements	Approximately 95 1/2" (242.5 cm) high, 70" (177.8 cm) wide, 49" (124.5 cm) deep
Technique	Assemblage (sculpture technique) Sculpting
Work Type	Sculpture Assemblages (sculpture) Mixed media
Repository	Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Source	Schwarz, Arturo. The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp. 2nd rev. ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970. (p.559, cat.no.392).
Rights	All rights reserved. No part of the contents of this book [Schwarz] may be reproduced without the written permission of the publishers Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 649-15.jpg
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