Henderson, Linda

Henderson, Linda Dalrymple. 1998. Duchamp in Context Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works. Princeton Princeton University Press. 

Already there are excellent studies organizing Duchamp s production according to broad thematics. Outstanding among these are Linda Henderson s... 

The turbulent years just before the outbreak of World War I marked the point at which the Esoteric Tradition and Science were briefly espoused as Linda Henderson concludes, as an example of the supersensible vibrations of the electromagnetic spectrum, x-rays offered contemporary occultists a scientific rationale for phenomena such as clairvoyance as well as telepathy.. . . X-rays and radioactivity had made it impossible for the layman to think any longer of matter as solid and impenetrable or of space as a void. And, according to Henderson s most recent appraisal (1998),... 

Such as it appears in Duchamp s titular inscriptions, Linda Henderson also relates the verb tranverser to contemporary scientific discoveries, namely the penetration of solid forms by electronic and radioactive energy. While there was indeed much talk around 1912 about such invisible transversing energies, Duchamp seems particularly original in having made the popular modernist topic neo-alchemical. 

See the recent essays by Linda Henderson and Gladys Fabre, in Loers, 13-27, 350-73. 

One of the very few to mention Papus is Linda Henderson, in her Duchamp in Context. 

Ibid., 15-17. As Linda Henderson points out (Fourth Dimension, 119), this emphasis on humor only really appears in the later, beginning in 1923, editions of Pawlowski s Voyage. No matter Duchamp s more idle or anarchic humoristic exercises do date from the mid-1920s. 

These are points recently made and well documented (using other texts) by Linda Henderson see especially her 1995 essay Die modeme Kunst und das Unsichtbare Der verborgenen Wellen und Dimensionen des Okkultismus und der Wissenschaften, in Loers, 13-27. 

Ami Mankodi, Eric Logigian, Linda Callahan, Carolyn McClain, Robert White, Don Henderson, Matt Krym and Charles A. Thornton, Myotonic dystrophy in transgenic mice expressing an expanded CUG repeat. Science, 289 (2000), 1769-1772. 

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