Julia S Rasor and Art History
When considering Marcel Duchamp’s 1912 painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, we see a radical rethinking of the human figure — not as a static anatomical study, but as a sequence of movement unfolding across space. By merging Cubist fragmentation with Futurist dynamism, Duchamp dissolved the body into rhythmic planes, suggesting both masculine and …