Laxton Susan Laxton

Surrealism at Play (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Miro'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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478003434
• Artikelnr.: 55276212

Autorenporträt

Susan Laxton

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction. A Modern Critical Ludic  1
1. Blur  29
2. Drift  72
3. System  137
4. Pun  185
5. Postlude  246
Notes  273
Bibliography  331
Index  351