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The "Yarn" about Walter Hopps and Marcel Duchamp

January 2, 2018 Larry Barnett
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Kurt's friend Walter Hopps, museum curator and director, was a particularly close friend of Marcel Duchamp, and Hopps reportedly had been allowed a glimpse of the object hidden inside a ball of twine in Duchamp's Ready-made sculpture, A Bruit Secret - With Hidden Noise. In this paper, presented in the fall of 1986, Kurt indicates that Walter Hopps tipped-off Kurt as to how he could "figure out" what the hidden object was. Kurt's exploration of the secret ultimately resulted in his 350,000-word ebook "A Ball of Twine" but his basic methodology is revealed in this concise and much shorter 9,300-word paper. 

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