Dec 11, 2010
Hannah Wilke (American, 1940-1993). Through the Large Glass, 1976. 16mm film on video, color, silent, 10 minutes Through the Large Glass documents one of Wilke’s most effective and well-known performances, in which she executed a languid striptease behind the cracked transparent surface of Marcel Duchamp’s famous work The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915–23, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1976.

Hannah Wilke (American, 1940-1993). Through the Large Glass, 1976. 16mm film on video, color, silent, 10 minutes

Through the Large Glass documents one of Wilke’s most effective and well-known performances, in which she executed a languid striptease behind the cracked transparent surface of Marcel Duchamp’s famous work The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915–23, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1976.

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