Surrealism at Play - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surrealism at Play write by Susan Laxton. This book was released on 2019-02-14. Surrealism at Play available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 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. As Laxton demonstrates, play became a primary method through which surrealism refashioned artistic practice, everyday experience, and the nature of subjectivity.
Surrealist Games
Surrealist Games - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surrealist Games write by Alastair Brotchie. This book was released on 1993. Surrealist Games available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Surrealist movement that arose in Europe in the early 1900s used playful procedures and systematic stratagems to create provocative works and challenge the conventions of art, literature, and society. They conducted their experiments through art and polemic, manifesto and demonstration, love and politics. But it was above all through game-playing that they sought to subvert academic modes of inquiry and undermine the complacent certainties of the bourgeoisie. Surrealist games is a delightful compendium that allows the reader to enjoy firsthand the methodologies of the Surreal, with their amazing swings between the verbal and the visual, the beautiful and the grotesque. It is also a box of games to play for fun: poetic, imaginative, revelatory, full of possibilities for unlocking the door to the unconscious and releasing the poetry of collective creativity. The boxed set contains: * A 168-page sewn, illustrated hardcover book packed with outrageous language games, alternative card games, "Dream Lotto," and automatic techniques for making poems, stories, collages, photomontages, and candle-smoke drawings. The illustrations are by such artists as Max Ernst, Hans Arp, and Tristan Tzara * A fold-out game board for the "Goose Game," designed by Andr� Breton, Yves Tanguy, and others * A Little Surrealist Dictionary
Dark Toys
Dark Toys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dark Toys write by David Hopkins. This book was released on 2021-01-01. Dark Toys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A wide-ranging look at surrealist and postsurrealist engagements with the culture and imagery of childhood We all have memories of the object-world of childhood. For many of us, playthings and images from those days continue to resonate. Rereading a swathe of modern and contemporary artistic production through the lens of its engagement with childhood, this book blends in-depth art historical analysis with sustained theoretical exploration of topics such as surrealist temporality, toys, play, nostalgia, memory, and 20th-century constructions of the child. The result is an entirely new approach to the surrealist tradition via its engagement with "childish things." Providing what the author describes as a "long history of surrealism," this book plots a trajectory from surrealism itself to the art of the 1980s and 1990s, through to the present day. It addresses a range of figures from Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer, Joseph Cornell, and Helen Levitt, at one end of the spectrum, to Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Paolozzi, Claes Oldenburg, Susan Hiller, Martin Sharp, Helen Chadwick, Mike Kelley, and Jeff Koons, at the other.
Three Pre-surrealist Plays
Three Pre-surrealist Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Three Pre-surrealist Plays write by Maya Slater. This book was released on 1997. Three Pre-surrealist Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These three landmark plays from the French theatre embody the transition from the old to the modern in dramatic experimentation: precursors of surrealism, they are innovative, outrageous and highly enjoyable.
Stop That Rabbit
Stop That Rabbit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stop That Rabbit write by Sharon Peters. This book was released on 1997-02. Stop That Rabbit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who ruined Mrs. Baker's rose garden?
