| Surrealism at Play Contributor(s): Laxton, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1478003073 ISBN-13: 9781478003076 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $27.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Photography | History |
| Dewey: 709.040 |
| LCCN: 2018031282 |
| Series: Art History Publication Initiative |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 7" W x 10" (2.00 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Mir '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. |