A Book Of Surrealist Games

Author : Alastair Brotchie,Mel Gooding
Publisher : Shambhala
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X006168603

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Surrealist Games by Alastair Brotchie,Mel Gooding Pdf

The Surrealist movement that arose in Europe in the early 1900s used playful procedures and systematic stratagems to create provocative works and challenge the conventions of art, literature, and society. They conducted their experiments through art and polemic, manifesto and demonstration, love and politics. But it was above all through game-playing that they sought to subvert academic modes of inquiry and undermine the complacent certainties of the bourgeoisie. Surrealist games is a delightful compendium that allows the reader to enjoy firsthand the methodologies of the Surreal, with their amazing swings between the verbal and the visual, the beautiful and the grotesque. It is also a box of games to play for fun: poetic, imaginative, revelatory, full of possibilities for unlocking the door to the unconscious and releasing the poetry of collective creativity. The boxed set contains: * A 168-page sewn, illustrated hardcover book packed with outrageous language games, alternative card games, "Dream Lotto," and automatic techniques for making poems, stories, collages, photomontages, and candle-smoke drawings. The illustrations are by such artists as Max Ernst, Hans Arp, and Tristan Tzara * A fold-out game board for the "Goose Game," designed by Andr� Breton, Yves Tanguy, and others * A Little Surrealist Dictionary

Author : Mel Gooding
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781570620843

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A Book of Surrealist Games by Mel Gooding Pdf

This delightful collection allows everyone to enjoy firsthand the provocative methods used by the artists and poets of the Surrealist school to break through conventional thought and behavior to a deeper truth. Invented and played by such artists as André Breton, Rene Magritte, and Max Ernst, these gems still produce results ranging from the hilarious to the mysterious and profound.

Author : Alastair Brotchie,Mel Gooding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Arts, Modern
ISBN : OCLC:1150023899

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A Book of Surrealist Games by Alastair Brotchie,Mel Gooding Pdf

Author : Renee Riese Hubert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520329515

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Surrealism and the Book by Renee Riese Hubert Pdf

Author : Stephanie D'Alessandro,Matthew Gale
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397270

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Surrealism Beyond Borders by Stephanie D'Alessandro,Matthew Gale Pdf

Surrealism Beyond Borders challenges conventional narratives of a revolutionary artistic, literary, and philosophical movement. Tracing Surrealism's influence and legacy from the 1920s to the late 1970s in places as geographically diverse as Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Syria, Thailand, and Turkey, this publication includes more than 300 works of art in a variety of media by well-known figures—including Dalí, Ernst, Kahlo, Magritte, and Miró—as well as numerous artists who are less widely known. Contributions from more than forty distinguished international scholars explore the network of Surrealist exchange and collaboration, artists' responses to the challenges of social and political unrest, and the experience of displacement and exile in the twentieth century. The multiple narratives addressed in this expansive book move beyond the borders of history, geography, and nationality to provocatively redraw the map of Surrealism.

Author : Whitney Chadwick
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500777008

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Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement by Whitney Chadwick Pdf

A revised edition of Whitney Chadwick’s seminal work on the women artists who shaped the Surrealist art movement. This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas, and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, and Dorothea Tanning, among many others, embodied their age as they struggled toward artistic maturity and their own “liberation of the spirit” in the context of the Surrealist revolution. Their stories and achievements are presented here against the background of the turbulent decades of the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s and the war that forced Surrealism into exile in New York and Mexico. Whitney Chadwick, author of the highly acclaimed Women, Art, and Society, interviewed and corresponded with most of the artists themselves in the course of her research. Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, now revised with a new foreword by art historian Dawn Ades, contains a wealth of extracts from unpublished writings and numerous illustrations never before reproduced. Since this book was first published, it has acquired the undeniable status of a classic among artists, art historians, critics, and cultural historians. It has inspired and necessitated a revision of the story of the Surrealist movement.

Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781613124635

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Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer Pdf

Now expanded: The definitive visual guide to writing science fiction and fantasy—with exercises, diagrams, essays by superstar authors, and more. From the New York Times-bestselling, Nebula Award-winning author, Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. It also embraces the visual nature of genre culture and employs bold, full-color drawings, maps, renderings, and visualizations to stimulate creative thinking. On top of all that, it features sidebars and essays—most original to the book—from some of the biggest names working in the field today, among them George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Charles Yu, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Karen Joy Fowler. For the fifth anniversary of the original publication, Jeff VanderMeer has added fifty more pages of diagrams, illustrations, and writing exercises, creating the ultimate volume of inspiring advice. “One book that every speculative fiction writer should read to learn about proper worldbuilding.” —Bustle “A treat . . . gorgeous to page through.” —Space.com

Author : Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art and design
ISBN : UOM:39015064967451

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Surreal Things by Victoria and Albert Museum Pdf

Surrealism, one of the influential movements of the 20th century, had a profound impact on all forms of culture. Containing over 350 illustrations, this book examines its impact in the wider fields of design and the decorative arts and its sometimes uneasy relationship with the commercial world.

Author : David Getsy
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271037032

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From Diversion to Subversion by David Getsy Pdf

"Examines the wide-ranging influence of games and play on the development of modern art in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Alexander Klar
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015066842744

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Surreal People by Alexander Klar Pdf

Published to accompany an exhibition held at Victoria and Albert Museum, London [no dates given].

Author : Mary Flanagan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262518659

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Critical Play by Mary Flanagan Pdf

An examination of subversive games like The Sims—games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique. For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for conceptual thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical Play, artist and game designer Mary Flanagan examines alternative games—games that challenge the accepted norms embedded within the gaming industry—and argues that games designed by artists and activists are reshaping everyday game culture. Flanagan provides a lively historical context for critical play through twentieth-century art movements, connecting subversive game design to subversive art: her examples of “playing house” include Dadaist puppet shows and The Sims. She looks at artists’ alternative computer-based games and explores games for change, considering the way activist concerns—including worldwide poverty and AIDS—can be incorporated into game design. Arguing that this kind of conscious practice—which now constitutes the avant-garde of the computer game medium—can inspire new working methods for designers, Flanagan offers a model for designing that will encourage the subversion of popular gaming tropes through new styles of game making, and proposes a theory of alternate game design that focuses on the reworking of contemporary popular game practices.

Author : Susan Laxton
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781478003434

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Surrealism at Play by Susan Laxton Pdf

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.

Author : Maurice Nadeau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:610393959

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The History of Surrealism by Maurice Nadeau Pdf

Author : Gérard Durozoi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 0226174115

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History of the Surrealist Movement by Gérard Durozoi Pdf

Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozoi tells the history of Surrealism through its activities, publications, and reviews, demonstrating its close ties to some of the most explosive political, as well as creative, debates of the twentieth century. Unlike other histories, which focus mainly on the pre-World War II years of the movement in Paris, Durozoi covers both a wider chronological and geographic range, treating in detail the postwar years and Surrealism's colonization of Latin America, the United States, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Italy, and North Africa. Drawing on documentary and visual evidence--including 1,000 photos, many of them in color--he illuminates all the intellectual and artistic aspects of the movement, from literature and philosophy to painting, photography, and film. All the Surrealist stars and their most important works are here--Aragon, Borges, Breton, Buñuel, Cocteau, Crevel, Dalí, Desnos, Ernst, Man Ray, Soupault, and many more--for all of whom Durozoi has provided brief biographical notes in addition to featuring them in the main text.

Author : Margaret Hooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015066873186

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Surreal Eden by Margaret Hooks Pdf

Socialite Edward James was a patron of surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. Focussing on James' years in Mexico, Surreal Eden describes his estate of Las Pozas where he built one surrealist structure after another, providing full employment for the nearby town. From buttocks sticking out of a hillside to an elaborate aviary built on high-rise towers, Las Pozas is a surreal tribute to one of the most eccentric personalities of the early 20th century.