Surrealism at Play
by
Susan Laxton
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Art History Publication Initiative
ISBN-10
1478001968
ISBN-13
9781478001966
Publisher
Duke University Press
Imprint
Duke University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 22nd, 2019
Print length
277 Pages
Weight
1,114 grams
Dimensions
18.20 x 26.40 x 2.80 cms
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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 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.
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