in a myriad of works blurring the line between high art and
other objects, notably commercial ones: think of Koons or
Murakami or Hirst. But where these latter-day artists are
bombastic, the earlier Surrealists were devoted to subtler,
more poetic conundrums. To this day, nobody knows what
rattling object Duchamp's friend, Walter Arensberg, placed
within the ball of twine pressed between two brass plates
which constitutes A bruit secret; Duchamp remarked, "I will
never know whether it is a diamond or a coin." Nor do we know
the meaning of the inscriptions, juxtaposed, elided words in
French and English, arranged on the lower and upper plates. H
Lisa Zeiger
Duchamp,
A bruit
secret
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