Abstract
A new explanation of The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1915-1923) and the reasons why this work remained unfinished. Two spatial planes and their conflict. Unrealized figure of Juggler intended to become counterpart to the Bride. The unsolvable conflict between the two planes. Genealogy of the Bride from the portraits of Duchamp's sisters. The work was to became luminous event. Symbols of the circular movement in the ready-mades and in the Bride. Duchamp's metaphysical despair expressed in the ready-mades after 1916. Dada as a metaphysical approach. Parareligious character of Duchamp's artistic experience. Duchamp's surrealism and his arrangements of surrealistic exhibitions - attempts at creating an environment. Inaccessible space and the symbols of the Given. Duchamp - martyr to the absolute. The social position of an artist. Revolution of an ascetic type.
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