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Surrealism at Play (Hardcover)
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Surrealism at Play (Hardcover)
Series: Art History Publication Initiative
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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 IÂ 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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