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Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works, by Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998; 374 pages, $85.

Linda Dalrymple Henderson, a professor of art history at the University of Texas in Austin, has long worked in the lonely and unpopular field of modern art and geometry, publishing a version of her Ph.D. thesis on the topic in 1983.(1) Recently, she has devoted 10 years to investigating Marcel Duchamp'...