Word: bruited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...metal foot borne upward on its ornate, gilded and enameled pedestal Is surrealist in its incongruity. Our uncertainty about its contents-not only whether Mary Magdalene's foot is in it, but also whether it contains a real foot of any kind-recalls Marcel Duchamp's A Bruit Secret, two metal plates sandwiching a ball of twine inside which a small "thing," forever unidentified, rattles when shaken...
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