Linford, SarahDrake, AdrienneIvanishvili, Khatia2024-09-242024-09-242023Ivanishvili, Khatia. "Marcel Duchamp’s Belle Haleine and its View From Feminist Art History". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2023.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/298Thesis (B.A. in Art History)--John Cabot University, Spring 2023.The thesis discusses Marcel Duchamp’s 1921 Readymade, Belle Haleine, Eau de Voilette, and it explores his life and his alter ego, Rrose Selavy, along with his life as an artist. Duchamp’s connection with his mother and his troubled relationship with women, in general, are also explored. The movements Readymade and Dada are explained in a broad sense. On their own and in connection with Duchamp, with the question of whether Belle Haleine belongs to the Readymades or the Dada. The thesis explores his playful side and the side of his art that makes fun of the mainstream media and products. Belle Haleine and its name play along with Duchamp’s friend Man Ray and their artistic relationship along with other works by Duchamp like The Fountain and the mostly male perspective sources found and discussions of his works, which never mention the feminine part of his work, or discussed very briefly. Very little research has been done in relation to Belle Haleine, and the feminist works of Marcel Duchamp are almost nonexistent. this thesis strives to change this. Using the visual analysis of Belle Haleine and continuing talking about Man Ray in the context of the perfume and the portrait taken by him that’s on the label of the perfume gives the thesis the grounds to stand on in regard to Marcel Duchamp and the lack of feminist perspective on his work, while also answering the question of the movement Belle Haleine belongs to. The second chapter also explores the name plays of Belle Haleine, mentioning Helen of Troy. In chapter three, Duchamp’s possible inspirations and the environment he worked in are discussed as the connection he might have had with Coco Chanel and her and the possible link between Chanel Number 5 and Belle Haleine and Coco Chanel’s Boyish character meets Duchamp’s Feminine one.37 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968Thesis