The exquisite corpse : chance and collaboration in surrealism's parlor game / edited by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kochhar-Lindgren, Kanta.

Schneiderman, Davis.

Denlinger, Tom.

Series:

Texts and contexts (Unnumbered)

Texts and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exquisite corpse (Game).

Chance in art.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Arts, Modern--21st century.

Physical Description:

xxix, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2009]

Contents:

Part 1 The Ludic

1 From One Exquisite Corpse (in)to Another: Influences and Transformations from Early to Late Surrealist Games / Anne M. Kern 3

2 "This is Not a Drawing" / Susan Laxton 29

3 Events and the Exquisite Corpse / Ken Friedman 49

4 Cutting Up the Corpse / Oliver Harris 82

Part 2 Artistic Collectivity and Literary Creation

5 The Corpse Encore/Apres Exquis / Ingrid Schaffner, Elizabeth Finch 107

6 The Exquisite Corpse is Alive and Well and Living in Montréal / Ray Ellenwood 127

7 An Anatomy of Alfred Chester's Exquisite Corpse / Allen Hibbard 143

8 "together in their dis-harmony" : Internet Collaboration and Le Cadavre Exquis / Michael Joyce 164

Part 3 Academia

9 Academia's Exquisite Corpse: An Ethnography of the Application Process / Craig Saper 189

10 Dead Men Don't Wear Pixels: The Online Exquisite Corpse and Process-based Institutional Critique / Davis Schneiderman, Tom Denlinger 206

Part 4 Recomposing the Body

11 Exquisite Theater / Kimberly Jannarone 221

12 Howling: The Exquisite Corpse, Butoh, and the Disarticulation of Trauma / Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren 243

13 "You Make Such an Exquisite Corpse" : Surrealist Collaboration and the Transcendence of Gender in Hedwig and the Angry Inch / Don Dingledine 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780803227811

0803227817

OCLC:

317927681