From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art

Games and play occupied a central, if misunderstood, role in modern art in the twentieth century. Many art-historical narratives have downplayed the ways in which artists returned to play and to games as analogues to art practice, as metaphors for creativity, or as models for art criticism. The essays collected in this volume investigate the fundamental importance of supposedly nonserious activity and attend to the ways in which artists used play...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271037032
• ISBN13: 9780271037035
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.1" x 9.6"