Surrealism at Play

Surrealism at Play
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9781478003434
ISBN-13 : 147800343X
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Book Synopsis Surrealism at Play by : Susan Laxton

Download or read book Surrealism at Play written by Susan Laxton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War I world increasingly dominated by technology and functionalism. Whether through exquisite-corpse drawings, Man Ray’s rayographs, or Joan Miró’s visual puns, surrealists became adept at developing techniques and processes designed to guarantee aleatory outcomes. In embracing chance as the means to produce unforeseeable ends, they shifted emphasis from final product to process, challenging the disciplinary structures of industrial modernism. As Laxton demonstrates, play became a primary method through which surrealism refashioned artistic practice, everyday experience, and the nature of subjectivity.


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