Surrealism at play / Susan Laxton.
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TextSeries: Art history publication initiativePublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019Description: 384 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781478003076 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Surrealism | Painting -- Psychological aspects | Psychoanalysis and art | Play in art | Games in art | Symbolism in art | Art and Design | Art and DesignDDC classification: 709'.04'063 Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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