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How did The Large Glass use the methods of industrial design?

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Marcel Duchamp utilized the methods of industrial design for his work The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (also known as The Large Glass) as a way to reject traditional "retinal art." By adopting these geometrical techniques, he constructed the piece to function like the blueprint of a symbolic machine, which served to embody his conceptual ideas regarding man, woman, and love.1