TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laxton,Susan
TI  - Surrealism at play
T2  - Art history publication initiative
SN  - 9781478003076 (pbk.) :
U1  - 709'.04'063 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Surrealism
KW  - Painting
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Psychoanalysis and art
KW  - Play in art
KW  - Games in art
KW  - Symbolism in art
KW  - Art and Design
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - In this book, 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
ER  -