remarkable book … which advances no formal theories, but just keeps saying that the ego is always there in everything.”
Duchamp also noted the stage adaptation of Raymond Roussel’s 1910 novel, Impressions d’Afrique which featured plots that turned in on themselves, word play, surrealistic sets and humanoid machines. He credited the drama with having radically changed his approach to art, and having inspired him to begin the creation of his The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even, also known as The Large Glass.
While in Germany in 1912 he painted the last of his Cubist-like paintings and he started “Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors” image, and began making plans for The Large Glass scribbling short notes to himself, sometimes with hurried sketches. It would be over 10 years before this piece was completed. Little else is known about the