Delay: Seth Price Rudolf Stingel
Likely inspired by the writings of Henri Bergson, Duchamp de- scribed his seminal work, The Large Glass (1915–1923) as a “delay in glass.” Consisting of two glass panes ,lead foil ,wire , and dust, Th The Large Glass represents a sequence of interactions in the erotic en- counter between a “bride” (in the upper pane) and her nine “bach- elors” (in the lower pane), as suspended in time. The two sides are mediated by a series of operations that both connect and isolate these two dimensions. This duality suggests Bergson’s analysis of the process of intuitive reflection: he explains that an act of perception always occurs in the flow of time, and therefore involves memory. Moreover, as Duchamp wrote in his notes accompanying The Large Glass, by describing the artwork as a “delay” rather than as a painting, it could no longer by seen as a picture, but instead, as a puzzling object adverse to representation.
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