Nude Descending a Staircase
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Among his initial attempts was a series of paintings of Campbell’s Soup cans, which Henry Geldzahler, the art curator, called “the Nude Descending a Staircase of the Pop movement.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2020
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2″ drew inspiration from Muybridge’s pioneering stop-motion imagery.
From New York Times • May 21, 2013
Roosevelt particularly scorned Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, and wondered if the painter belonged to the school of "Parallelopipedonists, or Knights of the Isosceles Triangle".
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2013
Many -------of the style of painting exemplified by Marcel Duchamp's work focused on Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase as the -------of what they detested about modern art.
From SAT Tests
His now-legendary Nude Descending a Staircase made him the succes de scandale of Manhattan's 1913 Armory Show.
From Time Magazine Archive
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
