The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game

by Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren and Davis Schneiderman

In a parlor game played by the Surrealist group--the foremost avant-gardists of their time--participants made their marks on the quadrants of a folded sheet of paper: a many-eyed head, a distorted torso, hands fondling swollen breasts, snarling reptilian-dog feet descending from an egg-shaped midsection. The "Exquisite Corpse," as it was called, is still very much alive, having found artistic and critical expression from the days of the Surrealists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803227817
• ISBN13: 9780803227811
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.4"