Oculist Witnesses

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Oculist Witnesses are a set of diagrammatic, eye-related motifs in Marcel Duchamp’s artwork *The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even* that evoke themes of vision, perception, and mechanical observation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art motif
component of artwork
diagrammatic motif
alsoKnownAs Oculist Witnesses (in The Large Glass)
linked to: The Large Glass
appearsIn The Large Glass
artMovement Conceptual art
Dada
associatedWith mechanical observation
perception
vision
countryOfOrigin France
creator Marcel Duchamp
depicts calibrated visual scales
circular, target-like forms
hasForm diagrammatic
hasInfluenceOn later conceptual treatments of vision in art
hasInterpretation commentary on scientific objectivity
critique of detached observation in modernity
hasMotif eye
influencedBy optometry charts
scientific diagrams
languageOfWorkOrName French
locatedWithinComposition upper register of The Large Glass
mediumContext glass and mixed media
partOf The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
partOfSeries iconography of The Large Glass
relatedWork The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box notes)
represents measurement of vision
optical devices
thematicRole mechanization of vision
mediation of seeing
surveillance-like observation
usedIn art historical analysis of Duchamp

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