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Marcel Duchamp - With Hidden NoiseMarcel Duchamp, With Hidden Noise
Assisted Readymade: ball of string between two unpolished brass plates joined by four bolts. The ball encloses a small unknown object (added by Walter Arensberg) which makes a noise when shaken, 1916
Max Ernst - The Fruit of Long Experience
Max Ernst, The Fruit of Long Experience, assemblage of painted wood and metal, 1919
Claudia von der Heydt - Assemblage
Claudia von der Heydt, Assemblage (contemporary)
"I am tempted to see in collage the exploitation of the chance of meeting two remote realities on an unfamiliar plane . . . cultivating the effects of a systematic bewilderment . . . coupling two apparently uncoupleable realities on a plane apparently unsuitable to them . . . "

Max Ernst, "Beyond Painting", Cahiers d’Art (1936), cited in Gaëtan Picon, Surrealists and Surrealism 1919-1939 (New York: Rizzoli, 1977), pp. 56,94
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