User:Emily/NOTES for Own Research & Resource 08

The Game of Exquisite Corpse

paragraoh from Revolution by Any Means (July 1925 - December 1926)

- the name was based on the first sentence

- one of Surrelism's richest new activities

- it involved composing a sentence in collaboration with several others, no one having seen what was already written

- suggestive power of those arbitrary juxtapositions of words

- so brilliantly verified the Surrealist thesis and mentality, that the game became a system, a research method...perhaps even a drug

- a question-and-answer variation on the Exquisite Corpse produced a curiously resonant definition: "What is André Breton? An amalgam of humor and a sense of disaster; something like a top hat"

- extended to include drawing (painters: Masson, Miró, Man Ray, Tanguy, and Ernst) -> artists and writers alike could join indistinguishably in producing these creations

- In early 1926, the new form(defining a specifically Surrealist art in Surrealism and Painting) of Exquisite Corpse added another arrow to his quiver.