The Exquisite Corpse Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game / edited by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Denlinger, Tom.

Schneiderman, Davis.

Kochhar-Lindgren, Kanta.

Series:

Texts and contexts (Unnumbered)

Texts and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Modern--21st century.

Arts, Modern.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Chance in art.

Exquisite corpse (Game).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 331 p. ) ill. ;

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a parlor game played by the Surrealist group-the foremost avant-gardists of their time-participants made their marks on the quadrants of a folded sheet of paper: a many-eyed head, a distorted torso, hands fondling swollen breasts, snarling reptilian-dog feet descending from an egg-shaped midsection. The "Exquisite Corpse, " as it was called, is still very much alive, having found artistic and critical expression from the days of the Surrealists down to our own. This method has been used in collective artistic protocols as the "rules of engagement" for experimental art, as a form of social interaction, and as an alternative mode of critical thinking. This collection is the first to address both historical and contemporary works that employ the ritual of the cadavre exquis. It offers a unique overview of the efforts of scholars and artists to articulate new notions of crossing temporal and spatial boundaries and to experience in a new way the body's mutability through visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic frames. Bringing together diverse writers from across disciplinary boundaries, this volume continues the cultural and methodological innovations that have unfolded since the first days of the "Exquisite Corpse."

Contents:

Foreword : Totems without taboos : the exquisite corpse / Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky

Introduction : The algorhythms of the exquisite corpse / Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger

From one exquisite corpse (in)to another : influences and transformations from early to late surrealist games / Anne M. Kern

"This is not a drawing" / Susan Laxton

Events and the exquisite corpse / Ken Friedman

Cutting up the corpse / Oliver Harris

The corpse encore/apres exquis / Ingrid Schaffner (with a contribution by Elizabeth Finch)

The exquisite corpse is alive and well and living in Montréal / Ray Ellenwood

An anatomy of Alfred Chester's Exquisite corpse / Allen Hibbard

"together in their dis-harmony" : internet collaboration and Le cadavre exquis / Michael Joyce

Academia's exquisite corpse : an ethnography of the application process / Craig Saper

Dead men don't wear pixels : the online exquisite corpse and process-based institutional critique / Davis Schneiderman and Tom Denlinger

Exquisite theater / Kimberly Jannarone

Howling : the exquisite corpse, Butoh, and the disarticulation of trauma / Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren

"You make such an exquisiste corpse" : surrealist collaboration and the transcendence of gender in Hedwig and the angry inch / Don Dingledine.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612424472

9781282424470

1282424475

9780803226852

0803226853

OCLC:

593239982