TikTokers are playing the "exquisite corpse" game that was beloved by Surrealists. (graphic Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) Who remembers playing Exquisite Corpse as an icebreaker during arts and ...
“Exquisite Corpse” is a term for a collaborative art game created by the Surrealists of the early 20th century. A paper is folded into thirds and three artists take turns drawing on one section, after ...
Set in 1943 New York City, this intriguing if uneven first in a trilogy from art historian Harrison (Such Desperate Joy: Imagining Jackson Pollack) focuses on the fictional murder of Afro-Cuban ...
Installation view of "Exquisite Corpses," featuring, (left) Carlos Rojas, “Apolo 0.9” (1966) and (right) Hans Bellmer, “Doll” (1936, cast 1965), painted aluminum (all photos by the author for ...
Using their own cadavre exquis (“exquisite corpse”) technique, a collaborative work first generated during the surrealist art movement, post-punk pioneers Bauhaus pieced together their first new song ...
In the early 1920s, André Breton used the phrase "pure psychic automatism" to describe a particular methodology employed by members of an avant-garde movement known as surrealism. Over 100 years later ...
This week we bring you an assignment from Hugo Crosthwaite. This week we come to you from Rosarito, Mexico AND Chicago, IL to bring you an assignment from Hugo Crosthwaite. Hugo asks you to create a ...
British post-punk pioneers Bauhaus return with their first new song in over a decade, “Drink the New Wine.” Recorded during lockdown, Bauhaus used the Surrealists’ “exquisite corpse” method to create ...