The design of Rotary Glass Plates is special, especially for its time, because it was something new in art. It was a moving art object that played with the viewers eye. The way in which the plates circle around so quickly creates the illusion of no movement at all. After watching a replica of this piece in a video, it is amazing because if a picture was placed behind the spinning plates, the picture would still be clear. This was the magic of the device. Not only did it make the image clear, but the plates appeared to only be one moving object. An example of this can be found on Duchamp's website under number two of "Duchampian Multimedia."
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