Daft about Duchamp: the Bride and the Bachelors at the Barbican – in pictures

Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2 (1912)
The Bride and the Bachelors exhibition comes 100 years after Duchamp unveiled his painting to a scandalised New York audience, an event now regarded as the US's introduction to modern art Photograph: Sucession Marcel Duchamp, 2013, ADAGP/Paris, DACS/London

Duchamp's famous Fountain (1950, a replica of the 1917 original) Photograph: Succession Marcel Duchamp, 2013, ADAGP/Paris, DACS/London

Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, taken at the Broadway Photo Shop in New York (1917) Photograph: Succession Marcel Duchamp, 2013 ADAGP/Paris, DACS/London

Jasper Johns, Dancers On a Plane (1979) Photograph: Jasper Johns/VAGA, New York/DACS, London 2013

Jasper Johns, Painted Bronze (1960)
Photograph: Jasper Johns/VAGA, New York/DACS, London 2013

Robert Rauschenberg, Minutiae (1967, a replica of the 1954 original) Photograph: The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. DACS London /VAGA New York 2013

Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (1991-92, a replica of the 1915-23 original)
This piece, more commonly known as Large Glass, captivated Merce Cunningham, whose choreography was shot through with references to Duchamp Photograph: Moderna Museet, Stockolm

Dancers interpret a work by Merce Cunningham. The choreographer's 1968 piece, Walkaround Time, was a direct homage to Marcel Duchamp Photograph: Piero Cruciatti/Barcroft Media

A 1958 portrait of Merce Cunningham Photograph: Richard Rutledge/Merce Cunningham Trust

Dancers perform Merce Cunningham, who once said of Duchamp: 'Marcel always gave one the sense of a human being who is ever calm' Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Dancers perform among works by Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. The show's creator, French artist Philippe Parreno, drew on all five greats for inspiration Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

John Cage preparing a piano in the mid-60s. At the Barbican exhibition, Disklavier pianos are placed around the gallery, each playing one of Cage's compositions Photograph: The John Cage Trust

John Cage's Strings 1-20 (1980)
Cage once said: 'I can't get along without Duchamp. I literally believe Duchamp made it possible for us to live as we do' Photograph: The John Cage Trust